Ninety-nine percent of us live on the wrong side of a one-way mirror

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‘No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’

Part of our Human x Design series, a look at how we grapple with the complex nature of designing for people.

The area of ethics in user experience design ranges from providing complete freedom for the users, up to making all the choices for them.

The thousands of Wells Fargo low-wage employees who defrauded customers likely knew how it felt to face unfair overdraft fees or a deteriorating credit rating. So why did they do it?

Trump vann valet tack vare en effektiv digital kampanj, ”Project Alamo”. Med falska nyheter, massiv datainhämtning och medveten påverkan av motståndarna.

A city councilman is pushing to make public the code behind city decisions on everything from school assignments to trash collection.

I was asked to give the keynote talk at “Science, Journalism, and Democracy: Grappling With A New Reality” at Rockefeller University on…

Silicon Valley is slow to come to terms with the fact that it's become the new Wall Street.

F. Scott Fitzgerald said intelligence is “the ability to hold two opposing ideas in your head at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” It’s so hard to do. But there are all kinds of examples of when it’s necessary in investing. Getting rich requires the willingness to take big risks. Staying rich requires the paranoia to avoid big risks. Trusting your gut means there are true things that you can’t articulate. Being skeptical of your biases means knowing that you confidently articulate things that aren’t true. Being contrarian requires taking a stance most people don’t agr...

Machine learning is vulnerable to trickery–and scientists are racing to understand why. “If we can do this, so can the bad guys,” says one researcher.

A new Facebook tool deploys facial-recognition to identify users in photos, even when they're not tagged.

Last year I was bestowed the title of Champions of the Earth from the United Nations Environment Programme, and in honor of the champions…

The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems is launching the second version of Ethically Aligned Design, Version 2.

Livestream and automated copyright blocking algorithms don't play very well together; and from the looks of things, the problem is only going to get worse.

Basecamp designer Jonas Downey ruminates on the heavy weight of software design in the 21st century.

5 Questions for Cory Doctorow

We’ve got Robyn Kanner and Mike Monteiro on the show to talk about ethics in design. When and, more importantly, how should you stand up to a manager when they tell you to design something in…

The human brain is a complex mass of energy designed to respond to the world around it, and more specifically, designed to make effective…

I was in elementary school, watching the TV live, when the Challenger exploded. My classmates and I were stunned and confused by what we…

Ethics and accountability.

Chatbot fever has infected Silicon Valley. The leaders of virtually every tech giant — including Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple — proclaim chatbots as the new websites, and messaging platforms as the new browsers. "You should message a business just the way you would message a friend," declared Mark Zuckerberg when he launched the Facebook Messenger Platform for bots. He and the rest of the tech world are convinced that **conversation is the future of business**.

Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant’s ethics

A study into the ethics of Graphic Design

Researchers built a custom platform to root out trackers in mobile apps. They discovered 44 different varieties in 300 apps downloaded by billions of people.

You probably shouldn't be surprised.