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Exploring new forms of social justice through art
ML Learning
Unlike a normal edit, gene drive systems could lastingly alter or suppress local or global populations of a target species.
Building socially engaging robots and interactive technologies to help people live healthier lives, connect with others, and learn better
Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Ride-sharing, social media, artificial intelligence. These are examples of socially-beneficial, net-positive technologies that have shown...
Space Exploration Initiative
Sohan Dsouza speaks on the topic of moral machines.
After researchers resurrected a long-dead pox, some critics argue that it's too easy for scientists to make decisions of global consequence.
Reimagining human cooperation in the age of social media and artificial intelligence
Advancing wellbeing by using new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
Community Biotechnology
Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles
Massive global Moral Machine study reveals ethics preferences and regional differences
Creating technology for social change
The problem of ethical decision making presents a grand challenge for modern AI research. Arguably the main obstacle to automating ...
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving c...
Exploring evolutionary and ecological engineering
Given the power to alter the workings of the natural world, are we morally obligated to use it?
I'm a strong advocate of more open science, and my group tries to carefully consider our moral obligations and publicly admit mistakes.
The morality of preschoolers, trolleys, cookie-eating squirrels, and attempting to define “the consensus” with the Moral Machine Project.
Hiawatha Bray reports on the unrest bubbling up in the tech industry.
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
Course information
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on ...
Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center are collaborating with MIT scholars to make sure openness and ethics inform AI.
By Joi Ito
The latest enthusiasm for eternal life largely stems from the belief that technology will enhance humans and make them immortal.
“I’m not worried so much about robots developing their own agenda and taking over the world."
Ethics
Media Lab researchers are part of a growing movement at MIT to explore the regulatory frontiers of AI—in society and in our hearts and minds
The Humanizing AI in Law (HAL) project aims to build the technical and legal foundations necessary to establish a due-pro...
The development of biotechnologies since the era of recombinant DNA in the 1970s has occurred largely via the interaction of academic, in...
Adoption of self-driving, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promises to dramatically reduce the number of traffic accidents, but some inevitable ...
BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...
www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...
Researchers should hold themselves morally accountable for all of the consequences of their work. That can require publicly acknowledging...
The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm.Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness late...
For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post, Making new (robot) friends: Understandin...
Reid Hoffman likes to say, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Usually, he’s referring to tech companies like the ones he has ...
Biomolecules to biopolitics: hormones with institutional biopower! Open Source Estrogen combines do-it-yourself science, body and gender ...
Ritesh Noothigattu, Snehalkumar 'Neil' S. Gaikwad, Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Iyad Rahwan, Pradeep Ravikumar, Ariel D. Procaccia
What are the legal rights of a robot? This is one of the many questions MIT Media Lab researcher Kate Darling contemplates as part of her...
Despite of gazillions of leadership programs across university campuses and organizations, we increasingly live in an era of leadership d...
Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance...
Understanding children's relationships with social robots
Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at...
Creative Ethics of Cognitive Intelligence at Cannes Lions
“Unlike humans, these machine algorithms are much harder to interrogate because you don’t actually know what they know,” says Joi Ito.
Video: AI for all, not just a few.
Debating the ethics of AI-enabled marketing.
Awad, Edmond (2017). Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines (Master's Thesis).
Algorithms used by the police are better at identifying some racial groups than others. Why is hardly anyone studying this?
Kory Westlund, J., & Breazeal, C. (2015). Deception, Secrets, Children, and Robots: What’s Acceptable? Workshop on The Emerging Policy and Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction, held in conjunction with the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
The initiative, working with George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evol...
Peter Krafft, Michael Macy, Sandy Pentland. (2017). Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics. The 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).