Moritz Greiner-Petter: Seamful Design
Digital Ethics
Turning Privacy Inside Out by Julie E. Cohen :: SSRN
The problem of theorizing privacy moves on two levels, the first consisting of an inadequate conceptual vocabulary and the second consisting of an inadequate in
Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women | Re
Amazon.com Inc's machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.
Brave new era in technology needs new ethics | Financial Times
Advances in technology pose difficult moral questions for humanity — and it is not clear who is responsible for providing answers
Teens Are Being Bullied ‘Constantly’ on Instagram
Harassment on the platform can be uniquely cruel, and for many it feels like there’s no escape.
People in Power Are Quick To Call Out Injustice When They Are Harmed
People who feel powerful are quicker to change jobs or point out inequity directed at them than are people with less power, a study finds. This may help explain how hierarchies are maintained.
The science of inequality: why people prefer unequal societies
In a thought-provoking new paper, three Yale scientists argue it’s not inequality in life that really bothers us, but unfairness
Utilitarianism, Act and Rule
What’s wrong with AI? Try asking a human being | Kenan Malik
Amazon is right to reject its sexist AI recruitment system. It was built on a false premise
Why Great Success Can Bring Out the Worst Parts of Our Personalities
Once you’ve reached the top, do you have to care what anyone thinks?
Mozilla’s ambitious plan to teach coders not to be evil
The nonprofit’s founder and chairwoman explains her latest initiative: a $3.5M competition in partnership with the Omidyar Network to explore new ways to teach ethics to computer science students.
Building an Ethically Strong Organization
Large-scale misconduct starts small, so prevention should focus on how employees make decisions.
How to be Human at Work
Wholeness requires personal development of emotional intelligence so we will risk the personal authenticity needed for survival in complexity.
On Listening and the dangers of Empathy – Alastair Somerville
Bristol workshop on 19th February on Eventbrite at Learning To Listen
https://www.hcanews.com/news/creating-intelligent-computing-a-conversation-with-rosalind-picard
Facebook apologizes for showing baby product ads to woman who lost her child
The bereaved mother still saw the ads after sharing news of her loss on the site and changing her settings.
What Does a Fair Algorithm Actually Look Like?
Automated systems take into account thousands of variables to make decisions that affect our lives. People are calling for more transparency in AI, but not everyone agrees on what constitutes a fair explanation.
The Most Important Survival Skill for the Next 50 Years Isn’t What You Think
Historian Yuval Noah Harari explains why prepping for our future has nothing to do with learning code or building a bunker.
Why Netflix Features Black Actors in Promos to Black Users | WIRED
Netflix says it does not track users' race or ethnicity. But in customizing promotions based on users' past viewing history, it can achieve a similar effect.
Where are we on Digital Rights and how did we get here?
This is the first of three parts of the Innovation Initiative’s special series on digital rights. To illustrate the complexity of digital…
UX Practitioners - Errors We Make Without Even Realising
Humans have evolved a number of strategies to help us cope with the constant overload of information. Understanding these strategies can help us conduct better UX research resulting in more accurate observations, and design User Interfaces that are easier to use and require less mental effort
Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?
Silicon Valley was built on job-hopping. But when a leader of Google’s self-driving-car unit joined Uber, Google filed suit. Now the Feds are on the case.
The Bullshit Web
My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to have their telephone shut off for an evening at a time. I remember webpages loading slowly: ten […]
Opinion | Who Will Teach Silicon Valley to Be Ethical?
Some think chief ethics officers could help technology companies navigate political and social questions.
Opinion | I Thought the Web Would Stop Hate, Not Spread It
This is what the internet has come to: thugs like Mohammed bin Salman funding tech companies to host the vitriol of thugs like Cesar Sayoc and Robert Bowers.
How To Kill Your Tech Industry
In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.
How to Win Your Next Political Argument
With these five tips couched in cutting-edge science, you can finally go toe-to-toe with crazy Uncle Bob.
Nuremberg Code
The Nuremberg Code (German: Nürnberger Kodex) is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation created as a result of the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War.
Who are period-tracking apps really built for?
The golden age of menstrual surveillance is great for men, marketers, and medical companies.
Working Ethically At Speed
Faster is Different