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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
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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
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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
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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
Course Research

The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

Course information

MAS.S64 · with Joi Ito, Jonathan Zittrain
in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #government #machine learning +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 ...

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
Project Research

BayesDB

BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...

in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #data #machine learning +1 more
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Gender Shades

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...

in Civic Media · Center for Civic Media
#design #computer vision #art +16 more
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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 late...

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: Understandin...

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

via MIT Technology Review · Nov. 27, 2017
in Director's Office
#ethics
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Open Source Estrogen

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

in Design Fiction
Sputniko! · Mary Tsang
#art #civic technology #open source +2 more
Archived
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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...

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
Project Research

AI and Global Governance

Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at...

in Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
#artificial intelligence #government #ethics
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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