Digital Ethics

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.

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Exclusive: Epic has revamped its widely criticized sepsis prediction model in a bid to improve its accuracy, according to documents obtained by STAT.

Alice Wong can no longer speak. But she still has a voice.

It's the first big step to hold AI to account.

Motherboard previously revealed that SafeGraph was selling location data related to visits to Planned Parenthood facilities.

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The trial would give law enforcement access to live footage by consenting residents, a departure from the city’s previous stance

The rapid growth of dark data raises significant questions about the efficiency of current digital practices, say two professors.

Tech companies working with AI are outsourcing data collection and training to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liability.

Actor Bruce Willis, who recently announced his retirement from acting, sells his deepfake likeness rights so his face can continue to appear in films.

Participating in the war against Ukraine is a moral crime. For this reason, we have an obligation to do everything possible to avoid becoming complicit in this aggressive, unjust war. There are a number of reasons to regard Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its subsequent mobilization this way. The first reason is that the Russian government has violated its social contract with its people. The second reason is that people are being sent to war by an illegitimate power that is playing on a false sense of patriotism. And the third reason is that the war itself is a criminal act of aggression against the citizens of Ukraine. The last reason is the primary one. But I’ll begin with the points that apply directly to Russians.

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Over forty human rights groups signed a letter calling on Amazon and MGM to cancel "Ring Nation," which premieres tonight.

Where were you on Monday, September 8, 2014? How much time do you spend outside of your house every day? How many times have you visited your doctor this year? How many messages have you sent to this other guy when your boyfriend was out of town? While you may

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