Digital Ethics

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) gives US intelligence services backdoor access to data hosted on servers owned by American…

Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.

Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks

Pak ‘n’ Save’s Savey Meal-bot cheerfully created unappealing recipes when customers experimented with non-grocery household items

Need help navigating the AI policy sphere? Here's a map of national and international strategies, a list of challenges and recommendations, and a set of resources.

Places to find US AI regulation: A list of 9 official repositories of laws, strategies, and other activities.

The 2023 legislative session has seen a surge in state AI laws proposed across the U.S., surpassing the number of AI laws proposed or passed in past legislative sessions.

The Global AI Standards Repository is the world’s first centralized, transparent notification system that captures AI and Autonomous and Intelligent Systems standards and standards in progress. If you would like to submit an entry, please use the submit button below. *This is a compilation of user submitted entries. The submitter is responsible for any and […]

The hubris and determination of tech leaders to control society is threatening our individual, societal, and business autonomy.

The Russia investigator on exposing assassinations and Putin’s plots, looking over his shoulder — and using a cat to find a secret agent

Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks

The one you’re reading this in, for starters.

A new campaign from Deutsche Telekom and creative agency adam&eveBERLIN demonstrates the increased risks parents face thanks to the rise of data misuse and artificial intelligence (AI). In a hero film, AI is dramatically used to draw attention to risks of itself - AI. In addition to the opportunities of digitalization, Telekom wants to point out the urgency of responsible handling of personal data in the digital world. Pictures of holidays, family celebrations or weekend trips with the whole family - these are emotional moments that friends, and relatives want to share immediately. Often this happens all too carelessly. Once posted on the internet, this personal data is available worldwide and without limits. With the #ShareWithCare campaign, Deutsche Telekom wants to raise awareness for responsible handling of photos and data. The communication kicks off with the oppressive deepfake spot "A Message from Ella". It uses the example of a family to show the consequences of sharing children's photos on the Internet. Telekom draws attention to so-called "sharenting" - a much-criticized practice in which parents share photos, videos, and details of their children's lives online. "Telekom offers the best and most secure network," says Uli Klenke, Chief Brand Officer at Deutsche Telekom. "But in addition to access to this network, we also need the necessary knowledge and tools for safe and responsible handling of data on the Internet. Because the development of artificial intelligence holds opportunities and risks. In the spot, we let the AI warn us about itself. And thus, underline fascination and awe at the same time. We have to learn to deal with both factors appropriately." Deepfake spot raises awareness of the issue of sharenting The film stages and exaggerates a social experiment that could have taken place in the same form - because the technology for it has long been available today. The image of a 9-year-old actress, called "Ella", acts as the film’s protagonist. With the help of the latest AI technology, a deepfake of the girl was created. Deepfakes are videos, images, or even sounds artificially generated by machine learning. In the video, you can see how the "grown-up Ella" turns to her surprised parents. She sends a warning from the future and confronts mother and father with the consequences of sharing pictures of their child on the internet. For the first time, a virtually aged deepfake of a 9-year-old child has been created so that she can act and argue like an adult woman. Ella is representative of an entire generation of children.

New research shows how AI like ChatGPT, Bard and Stable Diffusion could fuel eating disorders with disturbing images and dangerous chatbot advice.

Langdon Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics?, Daedalus, Vol. 109, No. 1, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? (Winter, 1980), pp. 121-136

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Do artifacts have politics? This question has been the subject of decades of discussion in the social sciences and remains pertinent today.

Working from home offered the chance for a great rebalancing of family, friendship and our careers. But the dream is fading fast, writes Arwa Mahdawi

With so much growing interest and fear around AI, it may be helpful to know some history around the term, how it came to be — and why it…

Course overview This course focuses on incorporating ethical AI principles into the systems design process and is taught using a multidisciplinary approach. The course features real-world case studies, first-person narratives, self-reflection worksheets and hands-on coding exercises to maximise learner engagement and ensure they can immediately apply what they learn in their work or research context. The learning experience includes provocative thought experiments to challenge and stimulate understanding of ethical considerations in AI.

With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many disabled people have always understood

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. recently updated its Terms of Service to encompass what some critics are calling a significant invasion of user privacy.

Text-to-image models amplify stereotypes about race and gender — here’s why that matters

In the past few months, the FTC has announced case after case involving consumers’ sensitive health data, alleging violations of both Section 5 of the FTC Act and the FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule. The privacy of health information is top of mind for consumers – and so it’s top of mind for the FTC. Companies collecting or using health data, listen up. There are a number of key messages from BetterHelp, GoodRx, Premom, Vitagene, and other FTC matters that you need to hear.

People have little protection or recourse when the technology creates and spreads falsehoods about them.

IAPP Summer Privacy Fellow Will Simpson compiles global regulatory approaches to AI governance.

A unique collaboration between outside researchers and Meta has produced its first papers. Is this a ‘new model for platform research’?