23965 shaares
1179 results
tagged
ethics
One of the things people find peculiar about philosophers is our tendency to continue thinking about things that an ordinary person might consider settled. Even after making what appears to be a good decision about some moral matter—say, not murdering your brother even though he took the last cupcak
Momus Analytics' predictive scoring system is using race to grade potential jurors on vague qualities like "leadership" and "personal responsibility."
Data review boards are an emerging tool to help companies make responsible decisions about data use, as well as demonstrate their commitment to ethical decision
How hard will the robots make us work?
Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces.
There has been significant analysis of the ethical and regulatory issues involved with paying research participants, but less attention has been focused specifi...
The Zuck sucks. Always has.
Consequentialism!
Firms are adding ethical thinking to their processes, but ethical outcomes are optional.
How non-profit organizations can frame impact stories without falling into common pits.
On Saturday, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued a public apology for having displayed an altered photograph at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC. The public…
SAA Statement: NARA Exhibit on 2017 Women's March in Washington, DC | Society of American Archivists
Society of American Archivists
CHICAGO – The American Library Association (ALA) released the following statement regarding the National Archive’s efforts to alter photographs that include protest signs unflattering to our current
How China’s new state surveillance culture is changing the country’s centuries-old Confucian-inspired understanding of ‘face’
The 'robot rights' debate, and its related question of 'robot responsibility', invokes some of the most polarized positions in AI ethics. While some advocate for granting robots rights on a par...
CW: brief allusions to violent crimes near the bottom of the post “What does it matter if I have your location pings?! We delete them after 24 hours!” privacy. fucking. matters. We live in an age where privacy should be more important than ever. An age when we have the technologies to track and surveil with alarming precision. And that all exists in a regulatory framework that is—to put it as mildly as possible—totally fucking incapable of protecting the privacy of the average citizen.