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Ethical OS Toolkit As technologists, it’s only natural that we spend most of our time focusing on how our tech will change the world for the better. Which is great. Everyone loves a sunny disposition. But perhaps it’s more useful, in some ways, to consider the glass half empty. What
"There is no Wirecutter for low-income individuals." Fiona Morgan and Jay Hamilton talk about their research into information ecosystems and the media market.
Each small bad story reflects in miniature the shape of the industry’s big problems.
We cannot and must not leave moral decisions about our common future to the consciences of a privileged technological elite
Four Stanford engineers started a club for students interested in using their skills for social good. But then came job-recruiting season.
Nature - Computer scientists must identify sources of bias, de-bias training data and develop artificial-intelligence algorithms that are robust to skews in the data.
Unless you change the settings yourself, the stuff you do on Venmo is publicly visible. “Public by Default” explores the easily accessible details of Venmo users’ lives.
Data scientists, data engineers, AI and ML developers, and other data professionals need to live ethical values, not just talk about them.
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#PlaneBae is just the most recent example of an obnoxious trend.
The social network exploded in Myanmar, allowing fake news and violence to consume a country emerging from military rule.
The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents
Why write about the future? I’ve never seriously tried to predict the future, a fool’s game if there ever was one. Most science fiction writers are perfectly aware of the contingent nat…
Developers and designers need to initiate a conversation about the ethics of web design, i.e. how do we define and measure goodness and rightness in the digital realm? It's important to discuss responsibilities, decisions, and consequences.
Eric Dishman wants your data. As the director of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program, he’s trying to convince 1 million Americans to …
Digital information is the fuel of the new economy. But like the old economy’s carbon fuel, it also pollutes. Harmful “data emissions” are leaked into the digit
The vast majority - 93 per cent - of students said that they would not want their data to be handed to commercial companies without their consent, according to a survey conducted by the university admissions system Ucas in 2015.