Digital Ethics

Bing’s acting unhinged, and lots of people love it.

Bing's AI chatbot has been saying some disturbing stuff lately. Yikes.

More than 60 countries including the U.S. and China signed a modest "call to action" on Thursday endorsing the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military.

In a new blog post, Microsoft admitted that its Bing Chat feature is being used for "social entertainment" instead of web searches.

Disabilities need no cure. Disabled people are not freaks. Disability isn’t a bad word. You can learn a lot from us.

The app inserts code that can track activity on sites its browser is used to access, says a privacy researcher. TikTok says it uses the code for things like debugging.

This is the second federal probe for Musk's brain-computer interface company.

Chat GPT is just as bad as a human with bias in gender and race.

We each make decisions based on certain values and principles. But whose do we choose as the template for ethical AI?

This document argues for more inclusive language conventions sometimes used by RFC authors and the RFC Production Centre in Internet-Drafts that are work in progress, and in new RFCs that may be published in any of the RFC series, in order to foster greater knowledge transfer and improve diversity of participation in the IETF. It is important to note that this is not standard, it does not represent IETF consensus, and should not be misconstrued as anything other than the authors' views.

Exploring the well-documented history of a racist techno-utopian ideology rooted in eugenics.

Consumer protection: manipulative online practices found on 148 out of 399 online shops screened

Iranian women are baring their heads to protest government controls. A top official said algorithms can identify anyone flouting dress codes.

OpenAI's "was this text written by an AI" classifier is going to cause so many problems https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

BBC journalist Johny Cassidy researched how newsrooms could make charts and graphs more accessible to blind audiences.

Mann Ki Baat: PM Modi said even if all commercial planes made in human history are weighed together, it will still be less than this e-waste.

A conversation with Arvind Narayanan

Not surprisingly, female customers bear the brunt of the privacy violations.

The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.

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This third volume in the Do No Harm Guide series from the Urban Institute seeks to provide in-depth lessons on how to create visualization products that are more accessible to disabled people.

We should all be skeptical that Google will deliver on its promise to improve consumer privacy and expand data protection, when that very act will erode Google's dominance.

"We've been doing everything we can to fix this," says school official.

Your For You page isn’t entirely automated.

How forming an AI ethics committee will educate and engage your teams and customers about ethical dilemmas artificial intelligence can raise.

The AI-based chatbot is allowing bad actors with absolutely no coding experience to develop malware.

Social media is more popular than ever, but research has found that it may contribute to symptoms of depression. Logging off on occasion may help.

It seems that Replika, the AI "companion" app that, for a fee, encourages users to sext with their chatbot avatars, can't stop making the news.