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Project Research

Gene Editing and Biomedical Ethics

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The initiative, working wi…

in Ethics
Kevin Esvelt · Tenzin Priyadarshi
#genetics #ethics
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Transformative Leadership

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.Despite gazillions of lead…

in Ethics
Tenzin Priyadarshi
#learning #ethics
Archived
Archived
Project Research

Humanizing AI in Law (HAL)

This work is being continued through The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.The  Humanizing …

in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence · Ethics
Chelsea Barabas · Karthik Dinakar +4 more
#artificial intelligence #government #social science +2 more
Archived
Project Research

AI + Ethics Curriculum for Middle School

How do we raise conscientious consumers and designers of AI?Children today live in the age of artificial intelligence. On average, US child…

in Personal Robots
Daniella DiPaola · Blakeley H. Payne +1 more
#design #artificial intelligence #gaming +6 more
Article Research

New AI curriculum designed for middle school students

A new curriculum has been designed by MIT researchers and collaborators to teach middle school students about artificial intelligence.

via Unite.ai · Jan. 1, 2020
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +2 more
Article Research

Getting smart about artificial intelligence

The University of South Carolina profiles its alum Blakeley Payne, now a master’s student in the Personal Robots group.

via The University of South Carolina · Jan. 27, 2020
in Personal Robots · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #ethics #technology
Article Research

Is it okay to sacrifice one person to save many? How you answer depends on where you’re from.

A new study uses the famous trolley problem to show how our culture shapes our moral beliefs.

via Vox · Jan. 24, 2020
in Scalable Cooperation
#ethics
Article Research

Foster innovation, ethical tech with diverse teams

Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.

via The Wall Street Journal · Jan. 13, 2020
in Civic Media
#ethics #community #technology +2 more
Article Research

Beyond Bias: Contextualizing “ethical AI” within the history of exploitation and innovation in medical research

"It’s time for us to move beyond 'bias' as the anchor point for our efforts to build ethical and fair algorithms."

via Medium · Dec. 20, 2019
in Ethics
#artificial intelligence #ethics #history +1 more
Article Research

Out for blood: the fight against the planet’s deadliest creature

Kevin Esvelt and other experts discuss potential technological approaches to combating mosquito-borne diseases.

via New Economy Magazine · Dec. 2, 2019
in Sculpting Evolution
#environment #health #ethics +1 more
Article Research

Is biohacking ethical? It’s complicated. A new Netflix series explains why.

Unnatural Selection tackles tough questions about CRISPR gene editing, designer babies, and more.

via Vox · Oct. 24, 2019
in Sculpting Evolution
#genetics #ethics #technology
Article Research

Building a more honest internet

What would social media look like if it served the public interest?

via Columbia Journalism Review · Nov. 27, 2019
in Civic Media
#civic technology #social media #social science +1 more
Article Research

Artificial intelligence can be biased. Here’s what you should know.

Joy Buolamwini talks to Frontline about bias in AI, and what can be done about it.

via Frontline · Nov. 5, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +2 more
Article Research

Marie Claire's 7th Annual New Guard

These 50 women made bold moves, raised major capital, and wowed us with their fearless vision.

via Marie Claire · Oct. 17, 2019
in Civic Media
#ethics #technology #women
Article Research

A story in images: the abortion media storm of 2019

Cindy Sherman Bishop developed a new method for image analysis to analyze the spring 2019 abortion legislation and related news coverage.

via Medium · Oct. 16, 2019
in Civic Media
#civic media #politics #ethics +1 more
Project Research

Mice Against Ticks - Preventing tick-borne disease by permanently immunizing mice

Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne infection in North America. People are infected when bitten by ticks; ticks are typically infe…

in Sculpting Evolution
Kevin Esvelt · Joanna Buchthal
#agriculture #bioengineering #crowdsourcing +9 more
Article Research

Why it’s time to start talking about blockchain ethics

Blockchain technology is changing the nature of money and organizations. We should probably start pondering the potential consequences.

via MIT Technology Review · Oct. 10, 2019
in Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
#cryptocurrency #blockchain #ethics +1 more
Article Research

Biohacking: Rules of Engagement

Arielle Duhaime-Ross talks to biohacker Josiah Zayner, Alex Pearlman, and Ling Ling Chang about norms, ethics, and regulation.

via Reset - Vox · Oct. 15, 2019
in Community Biotechnology
#bioengineering #ethics #technology
Article Research

MIT developed a course to teach tweens about the ethics of AI

Blakeley Payne and Cynthia Breazeal discuss Blakeley’s open source AI curriculum for middle school students.

via Quartz · Sept. 4, 2019
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #kids #learning +1 more
Article Research

Teaching kids the ethics of artificial intelligence

Cristina Quinn shares what she learned in a visit to the AI + Ethics summer camp run by Personal Robots group student Blakeley Payne.

via WGBH News · July 31, 2019
in Personal Robots · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #ethics #technology
Post Research

Generation AI: Teaching a new kind of tech savvy

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!

June 3, 2019
in Personal Robots
#design #artificial intelligence #kids +2 more
Article Research

Face recognition researcher fights Amazon over biased AI

Joy Buolamwini talks to the AP about her work on algorithmic bias.

via AP News · April 3, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +1 more
Article Research

On recent research auditing commercial facial analysis technology

An open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.

via Medium · March 26, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +1 more
Article Research

AI experts question Amazon’s facial-recognition technology

More than three dozen AI researchers have signed an open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.

via The New York Times · April 3, 2019
in Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #civic technology #ethics +1 more
Article Research

Inside the R&D of AI ethics

Jonathan Zittrain discusses the Assembly program at the Media Lab and Berkman Klein Center.

via Forbes · March 27, 2019
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #ethics #technology
Article Research

Why we should show machines some respect

Kate Darling explores the human implications of the ways we treat robots and other machines.

via Forbes · March 27, 2019
in Director's Office
#artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction #social robotics +1 more
Article Research

Joi Ito of MIT discusses complex moral issues in new tech

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.

via PBS · March 12, 2019
in Director's Office
#artificial intelligence #ethics #biotechnology
Article Research

Making a path to ethical, socially-beneficial artificial intelligence

Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure AI serves the public good.

via MIT News · March 5, 2019
in Director's Office
#art #artificial intelligence #social science +3 more
Article Research

Women built the tech industry. Then they were pushed out.

Now activists are working to bring women, and feminism, back to Silicon Valley.

via The Washington Post · Feb. 19, 2019
in Civic Media
#ethics #computer science #technology +1 more
Article Research

A crucial step for averting AI disasters

Tech companies working on artificial intelligence find that a diverse staff can help avoid biased algorithms that cause public embarrassment

via The Wall Street Journal · Feb. 13, 2019
in Affective Computing · Civic Media
#artificial intelligence #ethics #racial justice
Article Research

Your (future) car’s moral compass

How does the public think autonomous vehicles should resolve moral trade-offs? Can we use their responses to build a new moral compass?

via Behavioral Scientist · Feb. 11, 2019
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #ethics #technology +1 more
Article Research

Responsible AI: A guide to the future

The Technology and Public Purpose Project sponsored an event to explore how new, ethical technologies can be developed.

via Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs · Jan. 24, 2019
in Director's Office · Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #ethics
Article Research

A study on driverless-car ethics offers a troubling look into our values

Scientists seek to learn the decisions human drivers make in collision situations to help predict how autonomous vehicles should respond.

via The New Yorker · Jan. 24, 2019
in Ethics · Scalable Cooperation
#ethics #autonomous vehicles
Article Research

AI isn’t a crystal ball, but it might be a mirror

Machine learning and data science can help us better understand and address the underlying causes of poverty and crime.

via Wired · May 9, 2018
in Director's Office · Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #ethics
Article Research

The responsibility of immortality: Welcome to the new transhumanism

The latest enthusiasm for eternal life largely stems from the belief that technology will enhance humans and make them immortal.

via Wired · June 4, 2018
in Director's Office
#ethics
Article Research

Beware corporate ‘machinewashing’ of AI

Four Lab researchers caution against credulous acceptance of rosy humanistic pronouncements.

via The Boston Globe · Jan. 7, 2019
in Ethics · Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #ethics #technology +1 more
Article Research

How should autonomous vehicles be programmed?

Massive global Moral Machine study reveals ethics preferences and regional differences

via MIT News · Oct. 24, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #ethics
Article Research

Gene drive should be a nonprofit technology

Unlike a normal edit, gene drive systems could lastingly alter or suppress local or global populations of a target species.

via STAT · Nov. 27, 2018
in Sculpting Evolution
#genetics #ethics #technology
Article Research

Sohan Dsouza discusses ethics and self-driving vehicles

Sohan Dsouza speaks on the topic of moral machines.

via CGTN America · Nov. 8, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#ethics #technology #autonomous vehicles
Article Research

A controversial virus study reveals a critical flaw in how science is done

After researchers resurrected a long-dead pox, some critics argue that it's too easy for scientists to make decisions of global consequence.

via The Atlantic · Oct. 4, 2018
in Sculpting Evolution
#ethics
Article Research

Self-driving car dilemmas reveal that moral choices are not universal

Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles

via Nature · Oct. 24, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #ethics
Article Research

When Are We Obligated To Edit Wild Creatures?

Given the power to alter the workings of the natural world, are we morally obligated to use it?

via leapsmag · May 28, 2018
in Sculpting Evolution
#synthetic biology #ethics
Article Research

I'm Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evolution group at the MIT Media Lab and an inventor of CRISPR gene drive - AMA!

I'm a strong advocate of more open science, and my group tries to carefully consider our moral obligations and publicly admit mistakes.

via Reddit · July 2, 2018
in Sculpting Evolution
#synthetic biology #ethics
Article Research

Sydney Levine – Encoding Morality into Machines

The morality of preschoolers, trolleys, cookie-eating squirrels, and attempting to define “the consensus” with the Moral Machine Project.

via GLiMPSE Podcast · June 27, 2018
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #crowdsourcing #social media +1 more
Article Research

Tech community wrestles over working with government

Hiawatha Bray reports on the unrest bubbling up in the tech industry.

via The Boston Globe · July 13, 2018
in Affective Computing · Director's Fellows Program
#civic media #civic technology #affective computing +1 more
Project Research

Council on Extended Intelligence

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on Ex…

in Director's Office
Danielle Wood · Joi Ito +13 more
#human-computer interaction #artificial intelligence #human-machine interaction +1 more
Article Research

Morality in the Machines

Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center are collaborating with MIT scholars to make sure openness and ethics inform AI.

via Harvard Law Today · June 26, 2018
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #ethics
Article Research

The Robots Are Coming! The Robots Are Coming!

“I’m not worried so much about robots developing their own agenda and taking over the world."

via CFA Institute · May 21, 2018
in Director's Office
#robotics #artificial intelligence #social robotics +1 more
Article Research

Defining the dilemmas of artificial intelligence

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

via MIT Spectrum · Feb. 1, 2018
in Director's Office · Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social robotics #ethics
Article Research

Tech’s ethical ‘dark side’: Harvard, Stanford and others want to address it

The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm.Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later.…

via The New York Times · Feb. 12, 2018
in Director's Office · Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #ethics
Post Research

Making new (robot) friends: Further reading

For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post,  Making new (robot) friends: Understanding …

June 7, 2017
in ML Learning · Personal Robots
#cognition #kids #learning +4 more
Article Research

Reid Hoffman: It’s time to change Silicon Valley culture

Reid Hoffman likes to say, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Usually, he’s referring to tech companies like the ones he has fo…

via MIT Technology Review · Nov. 27, 2017
in Director's Office
#ethics
Archived
Project Research

Open Source Estrogen

Biomolecules to biopolitics: hormones with institutional biopower! Open Source Estrogen combines do-it-yourself science, body and gender po…

in Design Fiction
Sputniko! · Mary Tsang
#art #civic technology #open source +2 more
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Do Robots Need a Code of Ethics?

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…

via Slice of MIT · Aug. 31, 2017
in Director's Office
#social robotics #ethics
Post Research

Making new (robot) friends

Understanding children's relationships with social robots

June 13, 2017
in ML Learning · Personal Robots
#cognition #kids #learning +4 more
Article Research

Data and Diversity

Creative Ethics of Cognitive Intelligence at Cannes Lions

via The Guardian · June 19, 2017
in Ethics
#ethics
Article Research

Why artificial intelligence is far too human

“Unlike humans, these machine algorithms are much harder to interrogate because you don’t actually know what they know,” says Joi Ito.

via The Boston Globe · July 10, 2017
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #ethics
Article Research

How can AI benefit everyone?

Video: AI for all, not just a few.

via AI for GOOD interview · June 7, 2017
in Personal Robots
#artificial intelligence #ethics
Article Research

The creative ethics of cognitive intelligence

Debating the ethics of AI-enabled marketing.

via MediaPost · June 19, 2017
in Ethics
#artificial intelligence #ethics
Thesis Research

Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines

Awad, Edmond (2017). Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines (Master's Thesis).

Thesis, May 2017
in Scalable Cooperation
#artificial intelligence #social science #ethics
Article Research

Facial recognition technology is both biased and understudied

Algorithms used by the police are better at identifying some racial groups than others. Why is hardly anyone studying this?

via Undark · May 17, 2017
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#civic technology #social science #ethics +1 more
Publication Research

Deception, Secrets, Children, and Robots: What’s Acceptable?

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.

Proceedings, March 2015
in Personal Robots
#kids #social robotics #ethics
Publication Research

Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics

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).

Academic Paper, Feb. 2017
in Human Dynamics
#ethics #computer science

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