Digital Ethics

When Amanda Kemper found out that artificial intelligence would help monitor students during her mechanical engineering class's final exam this summer, she was worried.

Empirical studies have suggested that language-capable robots have the persuasive power to shape the shared moral norms based on how they respond to human norm violations. This persuasive power presents cause for concern, but also the opportunity to persuade humans to cultivate their own moral development. We argue that a truly socially integrated and morally competent robot must be willing to communicate its objection to humans’ proposed violations of shared norms by using strategies such as blame-laden rebukes, even if doing so may violate other standing norms, such as politeness. By draw...

Americans, frustrated they don't have more control over their data, would gladly switch to companies that prioritize privacy.

Alexa is in her element. With more of us working or staying at home, we’ve never been more in need of her wifely services. Alexa, Siri, Google Home, and other “smart wives” — feminised technologies that take on the duties and traits of stereotypical housewives reminiscent of the 1950s — are on hand to help in this emerging crisis. But “helping” might not be all they are doing.

Lincolnshire police plan to test facial recognition and behavioral tech that infers people's moods and expressions by analyzing CCTV footage.

The data set’s ripple effects are immeasurable

The company will pay Illinois users between $200 and $400 over claims that it violated the state’s facial recognition law.

An 11th-hour reprieve for Uber and Lyft.

Problems in the underlying data mean we can't leave algorithms to decide things on their own.

The immigration agency has used facial recognition in the past.

In online settings, I can make adjustments for this. I can change my account settings, make new passwords, do things in incognito mode, use a VPN, etc. But this is real life. And this is my face. I can't VPN my face or change it or even necessarily know when I'm being identified.— Calli Schroeder (@Iwillleavenow) December 15, 2018

Pop star’s reported use of software to root out stalkers may be well meant, but it fuels a disturbing trend, experts say

New ACLU test illustrates the limits of Amazon’s Rekognition system

The NYPD has previously stated that the technology is used to gather leads on suspects for crimes, such as robberies and shootings, not to identify people in crowds or at rallies

Currently, the department’s Patrol Guide allows police to run facial recognition searches on anyone suspected of a crime or anyone who may have witnessed a crime.

The tech firm is fighting efforts to make it pay for local media content.

Microsoft Excel: 1 — Human Genetics: 0.

chants of “fuck the algorithm” as a speaker talks of losing her place at medical school because she was downgraded. pic.twitter.com/P15jpuBscB— huck (@HUCKmagazine) August 16, 2020

According to internal discussions, Facebook removed "strikes" so that conservative pages were not penalized for violations of misinformation policies.

Similar content is also readily accessible across Twitter, YouTube and Reddit, says UK-based counter-extremist group

If the appeal doesn't work out for Uber, it will be banking on voters to determine its fate in voting on Proposition 22 in November.

Dark patterns are as old as the internet itself. For over 30 years, the web has served as a breeding ground for manipulative design—and we’ve been attempting to stop it for nearly as long. In an impressive act of foresight, Rolf Molich and Jakob Nielsen of the Nielsen Norman Group started creati

You might not even realize these things are causing anxiety.

Nomophobia is the fear of being without your phone or without cellular service. While not recognized as an official disorder, it is a growing problem.

Ed Bridges, 37, from Cardiff, brought a legal challenge after having his image captured twice.

Dropshippers buy cheap products from China and then pay internet celebrities to promote them.

This paper examines the ethical and legal issues arising from the closure of a data-rich firms such as Facebook and provides four policy recommendations to mitigate the resulting harms to society.

Quantifying the accuracy of vision/facial recognition on identifying PPE masks

If engineers don’t apply ethical thinking to the design process, regulation will be required in the future.