It is a truth universally acknowledged—or at least a belief shared by many AI and machine learning researchers—that algorithms will be able to predict the behavior of individual human beings.

A growing industry wants to scrutinize the algorithms that govern our lives—but it needs teeth

Virtue ethics!

In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work.

This article sketches key concerns surrounding the digital reproduction of enslaved and colonized subjects held in cultural heritage collections. It centralizes one photograph of a crying Afro-Caribbean child from St. Croix, housed in the Royal Danish Library, to demonstrate the unresolved ethical matters present in retrospective attempts to visualize colonialism. Working with affect and haunting as research material, the inquiry questions how museums and other cultural heritage institutions are caretaking historical violations, identifying themselves as hosting agents, and navigating issues of trust and accountability as they make their colonial collections available online. Speculating about what an ethics of care in representation could look like, the article draws on reparatory artistic engagements with such imagery and proposes how metadata could be rethought as a cataloging space with the potential to alter historical imbalances of power.

Humans are being crunched into a robot system working at a robot pace

About a dozen health-care systems will co-own a private Seattle-based startup company that will anonymize data from millions of patients and make it available to researchers, health-care providers and pharmaceutical companies.

On "smart cities."

When conducting social media research, scholars inherently examine people’s personal lives due to the nature of social media engagement. While some so…

The requirement of harm has significantly impeded the enforcement of privacy law. In most tort and contract cases, plaintiffs must establish that they have suff

Ready or not, powerful text-generation AI will soon be assuming roles of customer service reps and video game characters

The toxicity of the social media platforms has been evident for a long time, and continuing to participate in it now feels like a choice we all have to make.

In recent years, the ethical impact of AI has been increasingly scrutinized, with public scandals emerging over biased outcomes, lack of transparency, and the m...

The Capitol riot has inspired a new army of amateur sleuths who want to help identify protesters. But it’s an ethically fraught hobby.

A genealogy of one of the most important datasets in AI.

The Civic Signals are 14 indicators of healthy online spaces, based on years of research into what makes online communities work.

Bill would require firms to disclose when they use software to assess candidates.

Regulation to curb hateful content online cannot begin and end with platform governance. Platforms are part of a larger online media ecosystem.