...& near-futures feel as vivid, urgent & complicated as they actually are, in spite of various cultural currents & pressures that work (both actively & passively) to minimize, oversimplify or outright dismiss those hazards. It was always going to be sci-fi for us, but my years teaching CS ethics

have confirmed & reinforced what my coauthors and I, coming from our variety of disciplinary backgrounds, all already knew in one way or another: bringing fiction (& especially scifi) into an ethics classroom makes the issues personal in the best ways, while helping students see beyond their own...