AI and Ethics

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)

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

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

Listen to this episode from 99% Invisible on Spotify. Computer algorithms now shape our world in profound and mostly invisible ways. They predict i... (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)

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East German citizens were offered the chance to read the files kept on them by the Stasi, the much-feared Commun... (2018)

On a not-very-sunny day in our Golden State of California, I sat down (virtually) with Dr. Hanie Sedghi to discuss the topic of ethics in Machine L... (2018)

"Even when we don’t know it, artificial intelligence affects virtually every aspect of our modern lives. Technology and commerce will ensure it wil... (2018)

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)

A new guidebook for tech companies helps them imagine future scenarios where their tech might end up causing societal harm. (2018)

Caroline Lester on a game called “Moral Machine,” and an effort to determine what driverless cars should do if faced with a version of the trolley ... (2019)

Ethics are too subjective to guide the use of AI, argue some legal scholars. (2018)

Only a few legislators really know what they’re talking about, but it’s a start. (2019)

Yoshua Bengio, winner of the prestigious Turing award for his work on deep learning, is establishing international guidelines for the ethical use o... (2019)

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)

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

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