Digital Ethics

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

With fake pages and sham accounts, the military targeted the mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, said former military officials, researchers and civilian officials.

We found banned items for sale on Amazon.com

Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content”

Researchers said the company ignored their work and then stopped them from pursuing topics related to bias altogether.

As the US heads toward a crucial and contentious presidential election, the world's largest social network is facing an unprecedented cultural crisis.

Public concerns about #AI dangers are warranted, so what can companies do to guard against improperly developed or used #ArtificialIntelligence? Gartner analyst Ben Hertzberg offers lessons learned from one company’s use of an external #AIEthics board to embed representation, transparency and accountability into AI development decisions. Read more: #MachineLearning #GartnerDA #CDO

The role of nonfictional and fictional media in suicide contagion has been well established, ostensibly beginning with the publication of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther in 1774. In recent deca...

There is increasing evidence that the Internet and social media can influence suicide-related behavior. Important questions are whether this influence poses a significant risk to the public and how public health approaches might be used to address the ...

Update: it’s worse than I thought. I reached out to the organization that hosts the public advocacy portal in which this menu appeared. Below is an excerpt from their reply.THIS IS ALL BECAUSE 46 U.S. SENATORS WON’T ACCEPT PUBLIC COMMENTS WITHOUT A GENDERED PREFIX. pic.twitter.com/UAv9HTceYB— Desiree Weber (@desireejweber) July 16, 2020

Lack of transparency and biased training data mean these tools are not fit for purpose. If we can’t fix them, we should ditch them.

Much discussion around COVID-19 public health apps has focused on how to ensure functionality, including on how to measure proximity between phone users and whether apps should adopt a centralised...

Social media has become our new home. Can we build it better? Taking design cues from urban planners and social scientists, technologist Eli Pariser shows how the problems we're encountering on digital platforms aren't all that new -- and shares how, by following the model of thriving towns and cities, we can create trustworthy online communities.

This is the June 2020 recap issue of CDT’s monthly EU Tech Policy Brief. It highlights some of the most pressing technology and internet policy matters under debate in Europe, the U.S., and internationally, and gives CDT’s perspective on them.

SafeBoda has been exposed over its data privacy practices, following an investigation by Unwanted Witness Uganda. The civil society organization has today...

When the public is focusing on a technology instead of a holistic solution to address complex policy issues, technology theatre is working.

Apps that harvest data, dark web marketplaces, and state surveillance are just some of the dangers LGBTQ people have to think about online.

Digital Ethics – The Mindmap. This mindmap reminds me of the complexity of the system, but also of why it matters to work intentionally with Digital Ethics...