Digital Ethics

Bing's AI chatbot has been saying some disturbing stuff lately. Yikes.

More than 60 countries including the U.S. and China signed a modest "call to action" on Thursday endorsing the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the military.

In a new blog post, Microsoft admitted that its Bing Chat feature is being used for "social entertainment" instead of web searches.

Disabilities need no cure. Disabled people are not freaks. Disability isn’t a bad word. You can learn a lot from us.

The app inserts code that can track activity on sites its browser is used to access, says a privacy researcher. TikTok says it uses the code for things like debugging.

This is the second federal probe for Musk's brain-computer interface company.

Chat GPT is just as bad as a human with bias in gender and race.

We each make decisions based on certain values and principles. But whose do we choose as the template for ethical AI?

This document argues for more inclusive language conventions sometimes used by RFC authors and the RFC Production Centre in Internet-Drafts that are work in progress, and in new RFCs that may be published in any of the RFC series, in order to foster greater knowledge transfer and improve diversity of participation in the IETF. It is important to note that this is not standard, it does not represent IETF consensus, and should not be misconstrued as anything other than the authors' views.

Exploring the well-documented history of a racist techno-utopian ideology rooted in eugenics.

Consumer protection: manipulative online practices found on 148 out of 399 online shops screened

Iranian women are baring their heads to protest government controls. A top official said algorithms can identify anyone flouting dress codes.

OpenAI's "was this text written by an AI" classifier is going to cause so many problems https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

BBC journalist Johny Cassidy researched how newsrooms could make charts and graphs more accessible to blind audiences.

Mann Ki Baat: PM Modi said even if all commercial planes made in human history are weighed together, it will still be less than this e-waste.

A conversation with Arvind Narayanan

Not surprisingly, female customers bear the brunt of the privacy violations.

The Internet is allowing us to build a richer, more complex society but the way in which we Internet today is failing to support the governance systems that a more complex world requires. I take a look at why these issues are related, try to develop an intuition for a way forward, and point at the emerging field that is coming together to build that future.

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This third volume in the Do No Harm Guide series from the Urban Institute seeks to provide in-depth lessons on how to create visualization products that are more accessible to disabled people.

We should all be skeptical that Google will deliver on its promise to improve consumer privacy and expand data protection, when that very act will erode Google's dominance.

"We've been doing everything we can to fix this," says school official.

Your For You page isn’t entirely automated.

How forming an AI ethics committee will educate and engage your teams and customers about ethical dilemmas artificial intelligence can raise.

The AI-based chatbot is allowing bad actors with absolutely no coding experience to develop malware.

Social media is more popular than ever, but research has found that it may contribute to symptoms of depression. Logging off on occasion may help.

It seems that Replika, the AI "companion" app that, for a fee, encourages users to sext with their chatbot avatars, can't stop making the news.

Making sure our machines understand the intent behind our instructions is an important problem that requires understanding intelligence itself.

As artificial intelligence becomes more widely available, bad actors are turning to computer-generated faces in their attempts to manipulate social media networks.

My avatars were cartoonishly pornified, while my male colleagues got to be astronauts, explorers, and inventors.

Is the current obsession with AI Ethics doing any good? Maybe Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics wasn't such a great starting point after all

Guidance for designing ethically humane digital products and services through patterns focused on user well-being.

A conversation with Meredith Whittaker

After gaining access to a powerful administrative account, the researchers could perform all sorts of tasks inside Reviver, the sole company that sells the digital plates in California.

After a lengthy argument, a right to repair comes to agricultural machinery.

A European Union ruling against Meta marks the beginning of the end of targeted ads.

Silicon Valley has a solution for everything, but who do its ideas really serve? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its thought leaders, and the worldview it spreads. They challenge the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable. But if tech won't save us, what will? This podcast isn't simply about tearing tech down; it also presents radical ideas for tech designed for human flourishing instead of surveillance, acquisitions, or to boost stock prices. A better world is possible, and so is better technology.

After almost five years, the Irish DPC decided on a noyb complaint and required Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to stop using the personal data of users for advertisement in the EU.

Elon Musk said Twitter would begin authenticating users who pay $8 for Blue. Our tech columnist was still able to get a checkmark for an impostor Sen. Ed Markey.

Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash

Microsoft Editor in Edge and Enhanced Spellchecker in Chrome are sending personal information to Microsoft and Google respectively.

Existing and future use-cases for AI in web and product design

Our new research shows how popular chart choices can trigger unconscious social biases and reinforce systemic racism.

Technology has given police vast reach to compare the faces of criminal suspects against a trove of mug shots, driver’s licenses, and even selfies plucked from social media.

The Stable Diffusion Explorer shows how words like "assertive" and "gentle" are mapped to sexist stereotypes.

A security researcher has won a $107,500 bug bounty after discovering a way in which hackers could install a backdoor on Google Home devices to seize control of their microphones, and secretly spy upon their owners' conversations.

A Discussion with Alex Hanna

You no longer fully own the movie you bought, your next car will not work 100% even though you bought it if you don't keep paying, your smartphone is not fully yours since you are not free to repair it even though you own it, your home devices "betray you" by sharing data with companies even though you have welcomed them into your home... I'm sick to death of this technological modernity.