Expanding Our Reach: Amplifying SSIT’s Societal Mission

By on December 20th, 2025 in Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, President's Message, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact

For over five decades, the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) has been the professional home for people concerned with how technology impacts the world, and how the application of technology can improve the world.

What’s It Like to Trust an LLM: The Devolution of Trust Psychology?

By on November 16th, 2025 in Social Implications of Technology

The use of LLMs by people lacking expertise and experience, and for purposes they were not originally intended for, is, on the one hand, a fine example of technological generativity; on the other hand, it is having profound and consequential effects on trust relationships.

On the Abolition of All Big Tech Organizations

By on October 22nd, 2025 in Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Commentary, Communication Technology, Environment, Ethics, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact

Digital enterprises have become increasingly monopolistic, individualistic beyond narcissistic to the point of lamentably solipsistic, devastatingly careless of human potential, and environmentally wasteful.