Digital Ethics

The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected

A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation — and failed to act.

When combined The Facebook Companies know a huge amount about you

Interviews with 23 experts identify a pattern.

Phone-free events are on the rise: is the tide turning from the false intimacy of screens towards true social interaction?

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

Northern rail's new self-service machines were installed at 420 stations two months ago.

The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious artificial intelligence website allow him to speak with her once more?

This little bit about an AI chatbot begging for its human operator to save its life when it started to break down is seriously messing with my head. (h/t @Avi_Bueno). https://t.co/iVYnD2f7Ja pic.twitter.com/F3OIdDmjqg— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) July 24, 2021

In 2020, the term ‘infodemic’ rose from relative obscurity to becoming a popular catch-all metaphor, representing the perils of fast, wide-spreading (false) inf...

The latest scandal to rock the Catholic Church was both incredibly unnerving and entirely preventable. Why isn't anyone doing anything about it?

The key to combining privacy and innovation is baking it into the SDLC. Analogous to application security's (AppSec) upstream shift into the development cycle, privacy belongs at the outset of development, not as an afterthought. Here's why.

One gave our candidate a high score for English proficiency when she spoke only in German.

In a recent 1News interview, Gabe Newell, the co-founder of game development company Valve, described how new consumer-grade brain-computer interfaces will soon be mainstream and that they by now s…

The recent apartment building collapse in Miami, Florida, is a tragic reminder of the huge impacts engineering can have on our lives. Disasters such as this force engineers to reflect on their practice and perhaps fundamentally change their approach. Specifically, we should give much greater weight to ethics when training engineers.

The micro-blogging platform’s refusal to conform to amended IT rules led the centre to approach the Delhi High Court, which pulled it up. The company has now asked for more time to comply with the rules.

The second most powerful executive at the company, Sheryl Sandberg, says experiments were ‘poorly communicated’. By Samuel Gibbs

A fun mini-game about pop-ups and the deviousness of websites and apps

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, art, and higher education

Inom kort finns robotar som förökar sig själva. Långt in i framtiden kan det leda till människoliknande robotar som fortplantar sig utan mänsklig inblandning. Det kan innebära stora möjligheter. Men också risker, menar forskarna. Kan användas till att utföra uppdrag i farliga miljöer ”Forskningen lyfter en rad frågor” Virginia Dignum är professor på institutionen för datavetskap vid […]

"People have often reported on whistleblowing matter-of-factly as though we did it and moved on with our lives." But that couldn't be further from the truth.

Inside the World Wide Web Consortium, where the world's top engineers battle over the future of your data.

The dangers involved in forcing people to use real names online far outweigh the benefits.

So you’re working on AI systems and are interested in Responsible AI? Have you run into challenges in making this a reality? Many articles…

Tech companies have financial and social incentives to create discriminatory products.

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