The Therac-25 Incident (2021)

Every mechanical engineer educated in the USA knows the name of two famous collapses: the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the Hyatt Regency balcony in Kansas City, MO. With an engineering ethics class being part of nearly every undergrad curriculum, these are two of the classic examples for us. I'm curious; do software engineers learn stories like the Therac-25 in their degrees?

I was a Computer Engineer, so not quite the same, but we got taught about Therac-25 in our Engineering Ethics class when I took it over a decade ago.

Unfortunately Computer Science is still in its too-cool-for-school phase, see OpenAI being sued over recently encouraging a suicidal teenager to kill themself. You'd think it would be common sense for that to be a hard stop outside of the LLM processing the moment a conversation turns to subjects like that, but nope.