Digital Ethics

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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’?

People of color — especially Black women — lead the fight against discrimination and other hazards of artificial intelligence.

Rona Wang, a 24-year-old MIT student, was experimenting with the AI image creator Playground AI to create a professional LinkedIn photo.

For decades, the conventional wisdom about Silicon Valley was that it leaned progressive. And by many measures (like donations by Big Tech employees to political candidates), the industry has been…

AI is only as good as the algorithm that operates it, the data that trains it and the law that underpins it. If these are ineffective, as with robo-debt, then calamity can ensue.

Product First is a failure. Sustainable value comes from the pursuit of strong Customer and Employee First cultures.

TikTok accounts are posting artificial intelligence-generated clips of murder victims — mostly children — describing their own ghastly demise.

Artists are worried that their work is being fed into AI systems and are taking legal action.

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Excited that our #FAccT paper on Regulating ChatGPT has now been officially published in the proceedings – open access for all! In the main paper, we analyze…

Contractors in Kenya say they were traumatized by effort to screen out descriptions of violence and sexual abuse during run-up to OpenAI’s hit chatbot.

On July 21, 2023, in a photo op featuring only men in suits, President Biden announced that seven companies (Amazon, Anthropic, Google…

Opinion: Worldcoin is no radical new financial system, and certainly not one aimed at equality or fairness.

"Legal uncertainty" over models means many devs can't establish "appropriate rights."

With drought spreading around the globe, battles over water are erupting between AI companies seeking more computing power and communities where their facilities are located.

People are turning to chatbot impersonations of lost loved ones to help them grieve. Will AI help us live after we’re dead?