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Dream-hacking techniques can help us create, heal and have fun. They could also become tools of commercial manipulation.
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Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes and researcher Pat Pataranutaporn discuss the ethical implications of deepfake technology.
Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
Ariel Ekblaw spoke at the Chautauqua Institution about her novel space architecture ideas and a call for more dialogue on space ethics.
BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor that…
Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at a…
Deb Roy talks to Amina Asim about the ways misinformation spreads on social media and what kinds of damage it can cause.
Danielle Wood, Katlyn Turner, and Catherine D'Ignazio talk about The Abuse and Misogynoir Playbook.
Former Labber Rana el Kaliouby, current CEO and co-founder of Affectiva, talks with Reid Hoffman during an episode of Masters of Scale.
Middle school students reimagine the YouTube platform. Students consider the stakeholders in YouTube, the goal of the recommendation algori…
In October, MIT hosted the kickoff for Massachusetts STEM Week, which included a keynote by Cynthia Breazeal.
An inventor of CRISPR-based gene drive has some advice to improve science, ethics, and the life-saving potential of these technologies.
Kevin Esvelt and other experts talk about the risks and possible benefits of using gene drives to eliminate diseases and invasive species.
This project is supported by the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health (J-Clinic), the National Institutes of Healt…
Sparking discussion about the social, cultural, and ethical implications of emerging technologies through design and storytelling
The Disobedience Award has closed.
Disobedience Award
www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This for…
The problem of ethical decision making presents a grand challenge for modern AI research. Arguably the main obstacle to automating et…
The Moral Machine is a platform for gathering a human perspective on moral decisions made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving car…
Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance m…
Ritesh Noothigattu, Snehalkumar 'Neil' S. Gaikwad, Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Iyad Rahwan, Pradeep Ravikumar, Ariel D. Procaccia AAAI 2018: Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Acceptance rate of 24.6%)
How can we add the missing "T" and "E" in preschool STEAM education?
By Kevin EsveltResearchers should hold themselves morally accountable for all of the consequences of their work. That can require publ…
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.
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!
The City Symphony project by the Opera of the Future group brings creative musical participation to everyone while encouraging collaboratio…
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.