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Ethics
10
May

The Forgotten Margins of AI Ethics

May 10, 2022
Submitted on 9 May 2022 The Forgotten Margins of AI Ethics Abeba Birhane, Elayne Ruane, Thomas Laurent, Matthew S. Brown, Johnathan Flowers, Anthony Ventresque, Christopher L. Dancy How has recent AI Ethics literature addressed topics such as fairness and justice in the context of continued social and structural power asymmetries? We trace both the historical roots and current landmark work that...
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01
May

An MIT Technology Review series: AI Colonialism

May 1, 2022
Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/ai-colonialism-supertopic/ An MIT Technology Review series, supported by the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program and the Pulitzer Center, investigating how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before. INTRODUCTION Artificial intelligence is creating a new world order Over the last few years, an increasing number of scholars have argued that the...
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12
Mar

Do We Have the Ethical Guardrails for What’s Next in Tech?

March 12, 2022
Source: https://www.govtech.com/opinion/do-we-have-the-ethical-guardrails-for-whats-next-in-tech Opinion March 2022 •  Paul W. Taylor As technologists continue to introduce bleeding-edge ideas like the metaverse that could change how we work, live and play online, is government prepared to regulate those new spaces? Historian Robert Hughes coined the elegant phrase “the shock of the new” to describe the influence of technology on imagination....
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04
Dec

How AI Fails Us

December 4, 2021
“How AI Fails Us,” Divya Siddarth, Daron Acemoglu, Danielle Allen, Kate Crawford, James Evans, Michael Jordan, E. Glen Weyl (December 1, 2021). The dominant vision of artificial intelligence imagines a future of large-scale autonomous systems outperforminghumans in an increasing range of fields. This “actually existing AI” vision misconstrues intelligence as autonomousrather than social and relational. It is both unproductive...
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03
Apr

The Military Is Funding Ethicists to Keep Its Brain Enhancement Experiments in Check

April 3, 2021
Source: https://medicalethicshealthpolicy.med.upenn.edu/in-the-news/the-military-is-funding-ethicists-to-keep-its-brain-enhancement-experiments-in-check April 1, 2021 From Future Human: The military has long been interested in what medical ethicist Jonathan Moreno calls “the whole supersoldier business” — using technology to produce bionically or pharmaceutically superior warfighters. Moreno, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is interested too. Specifically, in one question that keeps gnawing at him: How...
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20
Mar

Elusive Ethics: Robotic Warfare and Autonomous Weapons

March 20, 2021
As the world’s militaries rush to win the AI race, organizations are raising their voices in opposition. https://interestingengineering.com/ethics-of-robotic-warfare-and-autonomous-weapons By Eric James Beyer, Mar 16, 2021 While on patrol in the mountains of Afghanistan in 2004, former US Army Ranger Paul Scharre spotted a girl of about five years old walking curiously close to his sniper team...
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15
Nov

SMART CITIES PAPER SERIES: Smart Governance in South African Cities

November 15, 2020
https://www.sacities.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Smart_Cities_Papers_Volume_1_Final-Draft.pdf Available online at www.sacities.net
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08
Nov

Pope’s November prayer intention: that progress in robotics and AI “be human”

November 8, 2020
In his video message on his prayer intention for November, Pope Francis emphasizes that progress in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) be oriented “towards respecting the dignity of the person and of Creation”. By Vatican News staff writer During the month of November, Pope Francis draws our attention to the epochal change that humanity is...
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01
Aug

AI Weekly: Big Tech’s antitrust reckoning is a cautionary tale for the AI industry

August 1, 2020
By Seth Colaner, July 31, 2020 3:19 PM This week, as the heads of four of the largest and most powerful tech companies in the world were called before a virtual congressional antitrust hearing to answer inquiries into how they built and run their respective behemoths, you could see that the bloom on the rose of Big...
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17
Oct

We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe

October 17, 2019
The technology is coming, but contrary to what some people say, there could be health risks By Joel M. Moskowitz on October 17, 2019 The telecommunications industry and their experts have accused many scientists who have researched the effects of cell phone radiation of “fear mongering” over the advent of wireless technology’s 5G. Since much of our research is...
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