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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).
Toy Symphony combines children, virtuosic soloists, composers, and symphony orchestras around the world to alter radically how children are…