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Morality in the Machines

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

Adoption of self-driving, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promises to dramatically reduce the number of traffic accidents, but some inevitable ...
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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...
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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...
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Aotearoa: Mistakes and Amends

Researchers should hold themselves morally accountable for all of the consequences of their work. That can require publicly acknowledging...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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A Voting-Based System for Ethical Decision Making

Ritesh Noothigattu, Snehalkumar 'Neil' S. Gaikwad, Edmond Awad, Sohan Dsouza, Iyad Rahwan, Pradeep Ravikumar, Ariel D. Procaccia
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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...
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Society-in-the-Loop

Recent rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning have raised many questions about the regulatory and governance...
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Making new (robot) friends

Understanding children's relationships with social robots
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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...
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Data and Diversity

Creative Ethics of Cognitive Intelligence at Cannes Lions
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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.
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How can AI benefit everyone?

Video: AI for all, not just a few.
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The creative ethics of cognitive intelligence

Debating the ethics of AI-enabled marketing.
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Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines

Awad, Edmond (2017). Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines (Master's Thesis).
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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?
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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.
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Gene Editing and Biomedical Ethics

The initiative, working with George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, and Kevin Esvelt, head of the Sculpting Evol...
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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).