ETHICS IN ENGINEERING
Ethics is defined as the accepted rules of conduct in respect to different classes of human actions. In my opinion, ethics is imperative to the structure of engineering. It gives people the ability to function correctly in their own behavior and without it, mayhem will subsequently arise. As of lately, movies and novels has given the world a fictional future where the growth of artificial intelligence has bred a robot that could function as an advanced human being. Although that future is not coming to us any time soon, my engineering team and I at Honda in Japan are working rigorously to develop technologies for the progression of the humanoid robot. In engineering, there will always be issues or concerns that will cause questioning and therefore, the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) along with a host of other organizations have formulated codes of ethics for its members to follow. I, myself, have proceeded to reference these codes multiple times as the issue regarding ethics and the work that I do at Honda are always at crossroads.

THE SCENARIO: SHOULD I GIVE OUT INFORMATION?
ASIMO, the world’s most advanced humanoid robot developed by my engineering team at Honda, already has properties that prove it to be at the forefront of artificial intelligence [1]. While this technology is very advantageous as humanoid robots were meant to be tools for human application, many believe that robots who can think for themselves can cause harm to people. There are several organizations that have begun to use the humanoid robot for military purposes and have approached me for information regarding the technology in ASIMO in exchange for money. In particular, the US Department of Defense has asked me for crucial advice and information on the locomotives of the humanoid robot so that they could improve on their own military robot. I am now faced with multi...