Digital Ethics

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This essay explore what infrastructures are needed to cultivate a more feminist, caring digital society.

Is Instagram fueling eating disorders in teenagers? Does TikTok harm your mental health? Are Facebook groups encouraging people to take part in offline violence? The answer is… we don’t know for sure. And that’s a serious problem. Sign our petition calling on platform transparency: https://mzl.la/3zjd1fL

This sweater developed by the University of Maryland is an invisibility cloak against AI.It uses "adversarial patterns" to stop AI from recognizing the person wearing it. pic.twitter.com/aJ8LlHixvX— Morning Brew ☕️ (@MorningBrew) October 25, 2022

Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

Greece's privacy authority has fined facial recognition company Clearview AI 20 million euros for violating parts of the GDPR.

Our Future Health plans to develop new ways to detect illnesses earlier and predict who is at higher risk of…

A Dutch court ruled Wednesday that a government system that uses artificial intelligence to identify potential welfare fraudsters is illegal because it violates laws that shield human rights and privacy.

SyRI was used to predict who may be at high risk of conducting housing or social security fraud.

Facing pushback, the Oakland Police Department this week said it would no longer seek...

The authors of "Surveillance State" discuss what the West misunderstands about Chinese state control and whether the invasive trajectory of surveillance tech can still be reversed.

The project, assigned to a Beijing-led team, would have involved accessing location data from some U.S. users’ devices without their knowledge or consent.

A massive new study of over 400,000 college students finds that #Facebook exposure increased depression, especially among those who were most susceptible to mental illness, and reduced academic performance, by fostering unfavorable social comparisons. https://t.co/0GddnmTcAc pic.twitter.com/cwjjI1kE50— Jay Van Bavel (@jayvanbavel) October 20, 2022

Security researchers have found a surprising method for exposing location data in otherwise secure messaging apps WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema. While the method sounds imprecise, tests showed that it provided greater than 80% reliability … Restore Privacy reports. A team of researchers has found that it’s possible to infer the locations of users of popular […]

A really great interview with @mer__edith, president of @SignalApp"...we are not in the business of compromising on #privacy, and we are not in the business of handing people who want and need #Signal a compromised version of it..."@verge @recklesshttps://t.co/tkUJk9WDVi— ssoɯpuosɐɾ@ 🇨🇦 (@jasondmoss) October 20, 2022

The giving philosophy, which has adopted a focus on the long term, is a conservative project, consolidating decision-making among a small set of technocrats.

The ML community has a unique responsibility to ensure the technologies we produce are fair, responsible and don’t reinforce racial & socioeconomic biases.

I’ve been seeing some absolute nonsense online recently, nonsense showing some actual real-world car features, and I’ve realized it’s my duty to take a moment and let the whole world know what’s going on here is very much not okay. It’s not okay. I’m not going to sit back and just let it happen, let …

Researchers at the University of Tokyo attached giant googly eyes to the front of an autonomous golf cart to see if they improve pedestrian safety.

The New South Wales Government’s new artificial intelligence assurance framework is a “soft stick” intended at providing the guard rails…

"What, if any, harm can a self-driving car do?" - blog post by Fiona Woollard (@f_woollard), which summarises the ideas in her great recent article in the Journal of Applied Philosophy about what she calls "the new trolley problem": https://t.co/tQxZ8z7ztu— Sven Nyholm (@SvenNyholm) October 12, 2022

Children are among those pleading for hours for digital gifts, as the company takes a cut of up to 70%.

The only emergency here is needing a change of pants.

A new bill will allow consumers to sue companies for damages—if they can prove that a company’s AI harmed them.

For too long, the industry has escaped legal liability in the pursuit of its own interests – and the EU has had enough

Online content was blamed for the 14-year-old’s death yet some harmful posts remain live on site, including suicide-related content

Can we get some laws, please?

As individuals and political leaders increasingly interact in online social networks, it is important to understand how the affordances of social media shape social knowledge of morality and politics. Here, we propose that social media users overperceive levels of moral outrage felt by individuals and groups, inflating beliefs about intergroup hostility. Utilizing a Twitter field survey, we measured authors’ moral outrage in real time and compared authors’ reports to observers’ judgments of the authors’ moral outrage. We find that observers systematically overperceive moral outrage in authors, inferring more intense moral outrage experiences from messages than the authors of those messages actually reported. This effect was stronger in participants who spent more time on social media to learn about politics. Pre-registered confirmatory behavioral experiments found that overperception of individuals’ moral outrage causes overperception of collective moral outrage and inflates beliefs about hostile communication norms, group affective polarization and ideological extremity. Together, these results highlight how individual-level overperceptions of online moral outrage produce collective overperceptions that have the potential to warp our social knowledge of moral and political attitudes.