ethics

All stories in ethics

• Study: Only 18% of data science students are learning about AI ethics

  A study by data science firm Anaconda found a "concerning" absence of AI ethics initiatives in both academia and industry. ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Your company needs to focus on ethics, respect, and inclusion — even if it’s fighting to survive

  Crisis is the right time for corporate leaders to be paying even more attention to the foundation of any workplace culture: ...

  • Janine Yancey

• Coding is not ‘fun’ — it’s technically and ethically complex

  Programming computers is a piece of cake. Or so the world’s digital-skills gurus would have us believe. From the non-profit Code.org’s promise that ‘Anybody can learn!’ to Apple chief executive Tim Cook’s comment that writing code is ‘fun and interactive’, the art and ...

  • Aeon

• Facial recognition and AI will invade public privacy — but it can be done ethically

  We live in an age where we have unprecedented access to almost any information we need. With the emergence of new technology ...

  • Jori Hamilton

• The case for an AI that puts nature and ethics first, not humans

  Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to bringing the biggest names in tech to showcase inspiring talks ...

  • Tim Leberecht

• Vatican's AI ethics plan lacks the legal restrictions it needs to be effective

  Microsoft and IBM have added a divine touch to their AI ethics efforts by signing a new pledge endorsed by his holiness ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Robot uses AI to personalize teaching of autistic children

  Researchers have developed a robot that provides personalized learning to autistic children by using machine learning to ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• UK police are using AI to predict who could become violent criminals

  Police in the UK are using AI to predict who could become violent criminals in a pilot of a system that the government plans ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Programmable living robots can help cure cancer — but how ethical are they?

  A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots”. This ...

  • The Conversation

• 2020 will see AI move from buzzwords to solutions

  2019 was the year AI started living up to its hype, 2020 will be about solving the key challenges that increasingly widespread ...

  • John Gikopoulos

• A tech apocalypse is inevitable without the humanities

  If recent television shows are anything to go by, we’re a little concerned about the consequences of technological development. ...

  • The Conversation

• Why growing babies outside the womb raises ethical concerns

  The idea of growing babies outside the body has inspired novels and movies for decades. Now, research groups around the ...

  • The Conversation

• This is how CIOs should approach ethics and privacy

  CIOs and IT directors must oversee appropriate data management while enabling their organizations to turn this information ...

  • Hilary Wandall

• Science needs myths and stories to keep it ethical

  I can still remember the horror of discovering that everything I had worked on was wrong. I was a PhD candidate just starting ...

  • The Conversation

• The ethics of deepfakes aren't always black and white

  Chances are if you’ve seen a deepfake, such as this now infamous video of Obama ‘speaking’ Comedian Jordan Peele’s ...

  • Henry Ajder

• We need to talk marketing ethics: What to consider as a content writer

  When I started writing, it was really just a hobby. I thought – since I’m already always scribbling away and habitually ...

  • Natasha Lane

• Having an ethical framework is the best way to mitigate risks in autonomous technology

  Many technology professionals bristle at the word ethics as an intangible topic more likely to show up as a required ...

  • Mark Halverson

• Here are the 7 requirements for building ethical AI, according to the EU commission

  In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligence–powered recruiting tool after it discovered the system ...

  • Ben Dickson

• Big tech’s ‘ethical guidelines’ are no substitute for real regulation

  Data ethics is now a cause célèbre. “Digital ethics and privacy” shot into research and advisory company Gartner’s ...

  • The Conversation

• How the Vatican approaches gene editing, life extension, and stem cell research

  The Vatican might not be a place where you’d normally expect to hear about cutting-edge scientific research, but that was ...

  • Joanna Lee

• Pinterest takes the lead in the fight against online misinformation

  The battle against misinformation just signed up a powerful, albeit unlikely ally: Pinterest. Earlier this week, the social ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Laws can't keep up with sex robots' ethical and privacy issues

  From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots are rapidly becoming a part of the national conversation about the ...

  • The Conversation

• How driverless cars choose who to kill is an ethical dilemma

  Slowly but surely, work on self-driving cars is progressing. Crashes still happen, tragic accidents come to pass every once ...

  • Ben Dickson

• FairBnB is an ethical alternative to Airbnb, coming in 2019

  FairBnB aims to bring much needed fairness to the vacation rental markets, focusing on giving communities a voice and a stake ...

  • Már Másson Maack