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Biorobotics - Healthcare, Medical Tech - Robotics and Automation

Biorobotics - Healthcare, Medical Tech - Robotics and Automation

AI - conversations, debates

a collection of articles about Google - AI, ethics, controversy and debate

Bringing back extinct animals, plants - Genetic Engineering, DNA and Science

Bringing back extinct animals, plants - Genetic Engineering, DNA and Science

Genetic Engineering, GMOs and the Environment - GeoEngineering, Debates and Science

Genetic Engineering, GMOs and the Environment - GeoEngineering, Debates and Science

Cheating in Sports

Cheating in Sports

Should I build this? - ethics of startup ideas

Should I build this? - ethics of startup ideas

Space Exploration and Genetic Engineering, DNA, Ethics, Science

Space Exploration and Genetic Engineering, DNA, Ethics, Science

Octopus - Animals, Intelligence, Farming, Seafood - Agriculture, Business and Science

Octopus - Animals, Intelligence, Farming, Seafood - Agriculture, Business and Science

Healthcare and Ethics

a collection of articles about Healthcare and Ethics

Data science, AI and Ethics

a collection of articles about data science, AI (artificial intelligence) and Ethical decisions

GeoEngineering, Climate Change, Debates and Science

a collection of articles about GeoEngineering, Climate Change, Debates and Science

Research: brain-computer interfaces - Neuralink and Elon Musk

Research: brain-computer interfaces - Neuralink and Elon Musk

Ethics, AI and Self-driving autonomous vehicles

trends, tech and issues related to AI and autonomous vehicles -- with a special look at the techn...

Google - AI, ethics, controversy and debate

a collection of articles about Google - AI, ethics, controversy and debate

Facial Recognition AI

a collection of articles and videos about Facial Recognition AI, machine learning

Scams, Pyramid Schemes and Multi-level marketing

A collection about Scams, Pyramid Schemes and Multi-level marketing

Augmented Eternity - Using AI and Technology to 'live forever'

“augmented eternity,” in which academics and technologists explore ways the human mind might be d...

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Article

Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab – TechCrunch

In a recent policy change, Google has banned deepfake-generating AI projects from Colab, its platform for hosting and running arbitrary Python code. (2022)


Article

Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order | MIT Technology Review

An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before. (2022)


Article

Ethical AI: An Introduction to Bias | by Siothrún (Jeffrey) Sardina | Dev Genius

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)


Article

Oxford Invited an AI to Debate Its Own Ethics—What It Said Was Startling

Nvidia's Megatron AI recently took the floor at the celebrated Oxford Union to debate whether AI can ever be ethical. (2021)


Article

How a Google Street View image of your house predicts your risk of a car accident | MIT Technology Review

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)


Article

Academic “Ghost-Writing”: The Cheating Scandal No One Will Discuss

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)


Article

Chegg: This $12 Billion Company Is Getting Rich Off Students Cheating Their Way Through Covid

Meet superspreader Chegg, which has become the most valuable ed-tech company in America by connecting college students to test answers on demand. (2021)


Article

Trump’s antibody treatment was tested using cells originally derived from an abortion

This week, President Donald Trump extolled the cutting-edge coronavirus treatments he received as “miracles coming down from God.” If that’s true, ... (2020)


Article

Elon Musk demonstrates Neuralink’s tech live using pigs with surgically implanted brain-monitoring devices

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)


Article

Why Doctors Should Read Fiction

Could a simple literary exercise make physicians more caring? "...could studying literature also be good training for medicine? A new paper in L... (2018)


Article

10 Inventors Who Came to Regret Their Creations | Mental Floss

Just because someone's invented something, it doesn't mean that they're happy with the end result. (2015)


Article

A biased medical algorithm favored white people for health-care programs

A study has highlighted the risks inherent in using historical data to train machine-learning algorithms to make predictions.The news: An algorithm... (2020)


Article

Are High Mask Prices The Problem Or The Solution? : Planet Money

As fears of coronavirus spread, so does price gouging for masks, which are in limited supply. (2020)


Article

The world wants to eat more octopus. But is octopus farming ethical?

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)


Article

The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world

The AI moonshot was founded in the spirit of transparency. This is the inside story of how competitive pressure eroded that idealism. (2020)


Article

The Evil List

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)


Article

An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away - New York Times (2020)

Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more hum... (2020)


Article

Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker - Bloomberg

Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker Practice Fusion ensured that addictive drugs were on the menu ... (2020)


Article

I Was Google’s Head of International Relations. Here’s Why I Left. — Write.as

_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)


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University Data Science Programs Turn to Ethics and the Humanities | EdSurge News

Data scientist Mark Madsen has been programming and crunching data long before buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning were com... (2019)


Article

He Jiankui faces three years in prison for CRISPR babies - MIT Technology Review

The Chinese scientist and two associates were sentenced after a secret trial. (2019)


Article

There’s a big problem with AI: even its creators can’t explain how it works - MIT

No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. (2019)


Article

Should a self-driving car kill the baby or the grandma? Depends on where you’re from. - MIT

The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures. (2019)


Article

How One Company Surveils Everything Kids Do and Say in School (buzzfeednews.com)

Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School. How Gaggle Surveils Every Document, Email, Chat, And Picture That Students Create Gaggl... (2019)


Article

The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools | WIRED

A growing number of districts are deploying cameras and software to prevent attacks. But the systems are also used to monitor students—and adult cr... (2019)


Article

What are the ethics of using gene-editing kits like CRISPR? - Vox - Recode

The ethics of DNA editing are being established years after CRISPR technology has been available to the public... (2019)


Article

Why remote war is bad war - MIT Technology Review

Technology makes fighting war easier and more palatable—but it dangerously changes the nature of the fight, argues a US Marine veteran. "The lus... (2019)


Article

Tech issues: The myth of inevitable technological progress - Vox

Tech moguls see facial recognition, smart diapers, and surveillance devices as inevitable evolutions. They’re not. (2019)


Article

The Case Against Octopus Farming | Issues in Science and Technology

Octopuses stand out among invertebrates for their complex behavior. They are capable of problem-solving, mimicking their surroundings using color c... (2019)


Article

Scientists are making human-monkey hybrids in China - MIT Technology Review

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)


Video

Biohacking our way to health with robot cells | Michael Levin

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)


Video

What is Bioethics?

Many of our major advancements are thanks to some modifications made technologically, medically, and even with our DNA. However, these new technolo... (2023)


Video

Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works.

Genetic Selection is Happening Already. Here's How it Works. (2023)


Video

The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris

The Impossible Ethical Bargain Behind African Safaris (2023)


Video

Malcolm Gladwell | Talking to Strangers - What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know

Watch four more talks by Malcolm Gladwell here! In this short keynote from How To Academy... (2021)


Video

Sam Harris and David Deutsch - remarks by Brett Hall

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)


Podcast

Houston Astros - Sign Stealing - 99% Invisible Roman Mars | Podcast on Spotify

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)


Podcast

The End of Privacy as We Know It? - The New York Times

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)


Podcast

YouTube and the End of Friction | Exponent

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)


Book

Google (PDF) - Perspectives on Issues in AI Governance (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)


Website

Podcast - Should This Exist?

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)


Website

Ethical OS Toolkit

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)


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