Ethics is often neglected in engineering education, two researchers write, despite mounting questions about how to responsibly design artificial intelligence programs.
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Strengthening democratic values in the face of AI will require coordinated international efforts between industry, government and non-governmental organizations.
If the VR industry is to experience the kind of growth that will make it worthy of the billions of dollars that have been invested in it, we need to view the metaverse as public infrastructure.
A team of doctors and academics worked together on back-to-basics surgical equipment that is already changing lives.
Insights of neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist, philosopher Nel Noddings and physicist Ursula Franklin help centre students and our collective future in debates about education and technology.
Historically, tech stocks have dominated global stock markets. Despite the pandemic, many continue to grow at remarkable rate.
If this is just one experiment among of tens of thousands, as Google has admitted, in what other ways might users have been manipulated in the past?
Of course people need ethics. But the current troubles in the technology industry are not evidence of an ethics crisis; it is a public-policy crisis.
Technological professionals are the first, and last, lines of defense against the misuse of technology.
Google’s secret plan to comply with Chinese censorship laws betrays the values that helped create the tech giant.
Where does responsibility lie if a person acts under the influence of their brain implant? As neurotechnologies advance, a neuroethicist and a legal expert write that now’s the time to hash it out.
In the wake of a self-driving Uber car killing a pedestrian in Arizona, an ethicist examines the state of autonomous vehicle development.
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Digital Communication, Queensland University of Technology
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Reader in Computing & Social Responsibility, De Montfort University
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Professor of Computer Science, Rice University
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Associate Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, University of Toronto
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Associate Professor in Surgical Technologies, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor of Neuroethics, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Law, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor, Psychology, Concordia University
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Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Oregon State University
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PhD candidate - Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Finance, RMIT University
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Associate Professor and Associate Dean Finance, RMIT University
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Principal lecturer in robotics, University of Hertfordshire
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Clinical research fellow in global surgery, University of Leeds
