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Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more hum... (2020)
Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker Practice Fusion ensured that addictive drugs were on the menu ... (2020)
In a controversial first, a team of researchers have been creating embryos that are part human and part monkey, reports the Spanish daily El País.D... (2019)
Backers say changes needed to spur innovation, but critics disagree (2019)
In a milestone for synthetic biology, colonies of E. coli thrive with DNA constructed from scratch by humans, not nature. (2019)
FOR THE past four billion years or so the only way for life on Earth to produce a sequence of DNA—a gene—was by copying a sequence it already had t... (2019)
Proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement, staff say. (2019)
Some think chief ethics officers could help technology companies navigate political and social questions. (2018)
Artificial intelligence will change the way we die—and the way we grieve for the deaths of our family and friends. (2018)
Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans. One Problem: He’s Not Real. - The Chronicle of Higher Education His website, the Student Loa... (2018)
You need to make moral judgments about different types of lies. Find out how your opinion aligns itself with three of the main schools of philosophy. (2018)
The $2.5 trillion fashion industry is the second-largest user (pdf) of water globally, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Euro... (2018)
In a recent policy change, Google has banned deepfake-generating AI projects from Colab, its platform for hosting and running arbitrary Python code. (2022)
An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before. (2022)
This is the first of several articles I intend to write about ethical AI. I’ll be focussing on bias and explainability in AI, and how these two con... (2022)
Nvidia's Megatron AI recently took the floor at the celebrated Oxford Union to debate whether AI can ever be ethical. (2021)
Google Street View has become a surprisingly useful way to learn about the world without stepping into it. People use it to plan journeys, to explo... (2021)
Getting a good college education turns out to be a lot easier than it used to be. It’s not that the courses have gotten any easier, but academic ch... (2021)
Meet superspreader Chegg, which has become the most valuable ed-tech company in America by connecting college students to test answers on demand. (2021)
Elon Musk -founded Neuralink has made headlines over the past many years around it efforts to develop a new kind of interface between the human bra... (2020)
Could a simple literary exercise make physicians more caring? "...could studying literature also be good training for medicine? A new paper in L... (2018)
Just because someone's invented something, it doesn't mean that they're happy with the end result. (2015)
A study has highlighted the risks inherent in using historical data to train machine-learning algorithms to make predictions.The news: An algorithm... (2020)
Both highly intelligent and a culinary delicacy, the animals are at the center of a controversy that pits the conservation of wild octopuses agains... (2020)
The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism. (2020)
Which tech companies are really doing the most harm? Here are the 30 most dangerous, ranked by the people who know. The 30 most dangerous corporat... (2020)
_The company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” Things have changed._ ![Ross LaJeunesse, Democratic Candidate for U.S. Senate in Main... (2020)
Data scientist Mark Madsen has been programming and crunching data long before buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning were com... (2019)
The Chinese scientist and two associates were sentenced after a secret trial. (2019)
No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. (2019)
This biologist built a living robot from frog cells — and it could hold the key to the future of regenerative medicine:This interview is an episode … (2023)
Many of our major advancements are thanks to some modifications made technologically, medically, and even with our DNA. However, these new technolo... (2023)
Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works. (2023)
The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris (2023)
Watch four more talks by Malcolm Gladwell here! In this short keynote from How To Academy... (2021)
Some remarks about their second "Waking Up" podcast together.If you would like to support this endeavor, do consider making a one off donation by c... (2021)
An unregulated facial recognition app can probably tell the police your name, and help them find out where you live and who your friends are. (2020)
Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. In the early days of baseball, sign-stealing was almost like a game within the g... (2020)
Ben and James discuss the question of YouTube, why it’s similar and different from Facebook, and why engagement is both alluring and a potential pr... (2019)
This paper highlights what Google considers to be some of the critical current questions in the debate on AI governance. We hope it is useful as a ... (2019)
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... (2018)
It’s the question of our times: How is technology impacting our humanity? On Should This Exist? we invite creators of radical new technologies to s... (2019)