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Ethics Initiative
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Adoption of self-driving, …
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The initiative, working wi…
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Despite gazillions of lead…
This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The Humanizing …
How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…
A new curriculum has been designed by MIT researchers and collaborators to teach middle school students about artificial intelligence.
The University of South Carolina profiles its alum Blakeley Payne, now a master’s student in the Personal Robots group.
A new study uses the famous trolley problem to show how our culture shapes our moral beliefs.
Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.
"It’s time for us to move beyond 'bias' as the anchor point for our efforts to build ethical and fair algorithms."
Kevin Esvelt and other experts discuss potential technological approaches to combating mosquito-borne diseases.
Unnatural Selection tackles tough questions about CRISPR gene editing, designer babies, and more.
What would social media look like if it served the public interest?
Joy Buolamwini talks to Frontline about bias in AI, and what can be done about it.
These 50 women made bold moves, raised major capital, and wowed us with their fearless vision.
Cindy Sherman Bishop developed a new method for image analysis to analyze the spring 2019 abortion legislation and related news coverage.
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…
Blockchain technology is changing the nature of money and organizations. We should probably start pondering the potential consequences.
Arielle Duhaime-Ross talks to biohacker Josiah Zayner, Alex Pearlman, and Ling Ling Chang about norms, ethics, and regulation.
Blakeley Payne and Cynthia Breazeal discuss Blakeley’s open source AI curriculum for middle school students.
Cristina Quinn shares what she learned in a visit to the AI + Ethics summer camp run by Personal Robots group student Blakeley Payne.
This summer, the Personal Robots group will be hosting a week-long workshop at the MIT Media Lab to teach kids about AI and ethics!
Joy Buolamwini talks to the AP about her work on algorithmic bias.
An open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
More than three dozen AI researchers have signed an open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
Jonathan Zittrain discusses the Assembly program at the Media Lab and Berkman Klein Center.
Kate Darling explores the human implications of the ways we treat robots and other machines.
Joi Ito talks to Walter Isaacson about AI, ethics, biotech, and how being a DJ prepared him to become the director of the Media Lab.
Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure AI serves the public good.
Now activists are working to bring women, and feminism, back to Silicon Valley.
Tech companies working on artificial intelligence find that a diverse staff can help avoid biased algorithms that cause public embarrassment
How does the public think autonomous vehicles should resolve moral trade-offs? Can we use their responses to build a new moral compass?
The Technology and Public Purpose Project sponsored an event to explore how new, ethical technologies can be developed.
Scientists seek to learn the decisions human drivers make in collision situations to help predict how autonomous vehicles should respond.
Machine learning and data science can help us better understand and address the underlying causes of poverty and crime.
The latest enthusiasm for eternal life largely stems from the belief that technology will enhance humans and make them immortal.
Four Lab researchers caution against credulous acceptance of rosy humanistic pronouncements.
Massive global Moral Machine study reveals ethics preferences and regional differences
Unlike a normal edit, gene drive systems could lastingly alter or suppress local or global populations of a target species.
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.
Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles
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.
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on Ex…
Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center are collaborating with MIT scholars to make sure openness and ethics inform AI.
“I’m not worried so much about robots developing their own agenda and taking over the world."
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 medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm.Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later.…
For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post, Making new (robot) friends: Understanding …
Reid Hoffman likes to say, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Usually, he’s referring to tech companies like the ones he has fo…
Biomolecules to biopolitics: hormones with institutional biopower! Open Source Estrogen combines do-it-yourself science, body and gender po…
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 w…
Understanding children's relationships with social robots
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.
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).