Everyone likes being told they’re clever, even if it’s coming from an AI chatbot. But their sycophancy has serious consequences for truth and trust.
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The fast-growing market of non-invasive neurotechnology is collecting people’s neural data without clear guidelines.
AI has the potential to help prevent and detect abuse, but only if it avoids bias and is sensitive toward traumatized people’s needs.
Autonomous AI is still designed by people − so who or what is really responsible for its actions? For centuries, theologians have posed similar questions about mankind and God.
Ethics is often neglected in engineering education, two researchers write, despite mounting questions about how to responsibly design artificial intelligence programs.
Strengthening democratic values in the face of AI will require coordinated international efforts between industry, government and non-governmental organizations.
If the VR industry is to experience the kind of growth that will make it worthy of the billions of dollars that have been invested in it, we need to view the metaverse as public infrastructure.
A team of doctors and academics worked together on back-to-basics surgical equipment that is already changing lives.
Insights of neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist, philosopher Nel Noddings and physicist Ursula Franklin help centre students and our collective future in debates about education and technology.
Historically, tech stocks have dominated global stock markets. Despite the pandemic, many continue to grow at remarkable rate.
If this is just one experiment among of tens of thousands, as Google has admitted, in what other ways might users have been manipulated in the past?
Of course people need ethics. But the current troubles in the technology industry are not evidence of an ethics crisis; it is a public-policy crisis.
Technological professionals are the first, and last, lines of defense against the misuse of technology.
Google’s secret plan to comply with Chinese censorship laws betrays the values that helped create the tech giant.
Where does responsibility lie if a person acts under the influence of their brain implant? As neurotechnologies advance, a neuroethicist and a legal expert write that now’s the time to hash it out.
In the wake of a self-driving Uber car killing a pedestrian in Arizona, an ethicist examines the state of autonomous vehicle development.
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Reader in Computing & Social Responsibility, De Montfort University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
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Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Oregon State University
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Professor of Digital Communication, Director of QUT Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct professor, Carleton University
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Associate Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor and Associate Dean Finance, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Neuroethics, Penn State
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Doctoral Candidate in Movement Science, University of Michigan
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Clinical research fellow in global surgery, University of Leeds
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Professor of Finance, RMIT University
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Professor of electronics and instrumentation engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences
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PhD candidate - Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University