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Science and Engineering Ethics - Moral responsibility is one of the core concepts in engineering ethics and consequently in most engineering ethics education. Yet, despite a growing awareness that...
Stewards of social science data face a fundamental tension. On one hand, they want to make their data accessible to as many researchers as possible to facilitate new discoveries. At the same time,...
We influence each other in many ways besides pure reason. What’s the moral difference between persuasion and manipulation?
CW: suicide
OMG THESE PEOPLE ARE AMAZING I WANT TO HUG THEM FOREVER (if they're okay with hugs of course)
Last week brought an extraordinary demonstration of the dangers of operating a surveillance state — especially a shabby one, as China's apparently is. An unsecured database exposed millions of records of Chinese Muslims being tracked via facial recognition — an ugly trifecta of prejudice, bureaucracy, and incompetence.
This needs an explainer liek whoa, but it might be a useful foundation for a course assignment.
Researchers do the ethical thing.
In recent years, critical scholarship has drawn attention to increasing power differentials between corporations that use data and people whose data is used. A ...
As the US Senate debates a new bill, a data-governance expert presents a plan to protect liberty and freedom in the digital age.
Opinion: Humans train the machine-learning and AI systems at Facebook, Google, and Twitter to filter out bias. The problem: they don't know what they're looking for.
A whole book! Open access!
Hired through an online gig economy platform, workers unknowingly helped Google improve its artificial intelligence military-targeting software.
Information used to gauge opioid overdose risk is unregulated and used without patient consent.
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and […]
He said Facebook users want tailored ads. According to our research, that’s not true.
Op-ed: a computer scientist weighs in on the downsides of AI.
Police, prosecutors, judges, and other criminal justice actors increasingly use algorithmic risk assessment to estimate the likelihood that a person will commit
Algorithms are best at pursuing a single mathematical objective—but humans often want multiple incompatible things.