Digital Ethics

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.

A four-year effort to monitor parolees in Indiana with bracelets and use AI algorithms to predict their behavior raises red flags.

The public deserves to know the extent to which Apple employees have been listening to our private conversations and intimate moments

At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, contact tracing was considered the best hope for getting people back to offices and schools safely without a vaccine. The tech industry was optimistic that apps would provide a faster, more effective alternative to the usual painstaking human process of calling and interviewing the networks of infected people to figure out possible sources of exposure.

Facebook’s employees and fact-checking partners say they are left in the dark about how the company decides what content stays up and what comes down.

Researchers at security firm Check Point uncovered a flaw that could have allowed attackers to extract personal information from Alexa accounts.

Researchers call for new regulations to protect users, and society, in case of collapse

Victory in world-first legal challenge hailed as huge step in fight against oppressive surveillance tool

Pinterest has always been about aspiration. It is a platform for sharing beautiful images, curating galleries of an idealized world. Users…

Researchers have demonstrated that they can fool a modern face recognition system into seeing someone who isn’t there. A team from the cybersecurity firm McAfee set up the attack against a facial recognition system similar to those currently used at airports for passport verification. By using machine learning, they created an image that looked like…

Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.

#IwanttoseeNyome outcry after social media platform repeatedly removes pictures of Nyome Nicholas-Williams

Algorithms routinely come up with ‘recommendations’ for anti-vax ‘bestsellers’ or juices that can cure cancer

Facebook also removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to conservative media outlet The Epoch Times.

School’s in session.

Los Angeles Football Club wants to “move everything to face,” while the New York Mets are testing the system on players and staff.

Researchers at the University of Chicago want you to be able to post selfies without worrying that the next Clearview AI will use them to identify you.

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How Facebook decides which ads to display on your News Feed.

Adrian Lovett, President and CEO of the Web Foundation, last week participated in the launch of the United Nations Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. Adrian called for universal internet access to be made an urgent priority, paired with action to ensure our digital technologies are

Nine philosophers explore the various issues and questions raised by the newly released language model, GPT-3, in this edition of Philosophers On, guest edited by Annette Zimmermann. Introduction Annette Zimmermann, guest editor GPT-3, a powerful, 175 billion parameter language model developed recently by OpenAI, has been galvanizing public debate and controversy. As the MIT Technology Review puts it: “OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless”. Parts of the technology community hope (and fear) that GPT-3 could brings us one step closer to the hypothet...

A study of young people finds a fine line between getting results and becoming "obsessed".

The social network doesn’t just ‘hold a mirror up to society’— it does something much more powerful and concerning

BERLIN (AP) — Holocaust survivors around the world are lending their voices to a campaign launched Wednesday targeting Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg, urging him to take action to remove denial of...

Researchers from NIST found that face masks are causing facial recognition algorithms to fail as much as 50% of the time.

The text generator is arguably the world’s most impressive AI. Humans are being given limited use – for now – to make sure things don’t go wrong

In a preprint study, researchers find evidence of bias in data sets often used to train AI that classifies a person's facial expression.

A Q+A with the novelist Tim Maughan, whose disturbing future predictions have had an unfortunate habit of coming true