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Taxi service. Smartphone and touchscreen, city skyscrapers. Transportation network app, calling a cab by mobile phone concept.

Uber Is Built on Trust

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles

Uber isn’t in the taxi business. It’s not really in the dispatch business, or even in the tech business. It’s…  Read More

Tags: June 2016trustUber

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Toyota: Not So Fast, Guys

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Case Studies, Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Magazine Articles

The automotive industry has furnished the field of engineering ethics with more than one “paradigm” case that generations of budding…  Read More

Tags: controversyJune 2016safetyToyotaunintended acceleration

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GM Ignition Switch Recall: Too Little Too Late?

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

How much stuff do you carry on your keyring? Besides keys, I mean. Some minimalists like my wife carry car…  Read More

Tags: accidentdefectiveGMignitionJune 2016legal aspectsrecall

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RFID Implant Developments: Where Are We Headed and Why?

By Sharon Rose Bradley-Munn on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

From a feminist perspective, author Donna Haraway makes inference to a type of teleology within technology itself that displaces the…  Read More

Tags: implantJune 2016RFIDteleology

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When Smart Is Not: Technology and Michio Kaku’s The Future of the Mind

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Leading Edge, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact

In his new book, The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower Mind, theoretical physicist…  Read More

Tags: brain scienceJune 2016Robots

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Social Network Neutrality, Anyone?

By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

Having recently relocated to a country where I know very few people, I tried looking for a local branch of…  Read More

Tags: FacebookInternetJune 2016net neutralitySocial Networks

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Marvin Minsky: 1927-2016

By Guest Author on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

Minsky (left) was keynote speaker at ISTAS 2013 held at the University of Toronto, Canada. (Right: Steve Mann, ISTAS ’13…  Read More

Tags: consciousnessJune 2016Marvin Minskyobituary

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When Uber Cars Become Driverless: “They Won’t Need No Driver”

By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact

I have long pondered the issue of dehumanization through automation. I think the old adage: “no one is irreplaceable” now…  Read More

Tags: 2001A Space Odysseyartificial intelligenceAutomationdehumanizationJune 2016

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Do We Just “Build Stuff”?

By Greg Adamson on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, President's Message, Societal Impact

Every day as engineers and technologists we go to work teaching, developing, building, implementing, maintaining technology. Do we care about…  Read More

Tags: communityjobsJune 2016

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Lost in Translation: Building a Common Language for Regulating Autonomous Weapons

By Marc Canellas on June 29th, 2017 in Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact

Autonomous weapons systems (AWS) are already here. Although some of the colloquial names for AWS may suggest science fiction (killer…  Read More

Tags: automatic weapon systemsregulationSeptember 2016

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An Ounce of Steel: Crucial Alignments

By Christine Perakslis on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

In the early 1940s, why would ten American female basketball players in the heat of competition abruptly halt a match…  Read More

Tags: communitygreater goodISTAS 2015September 2016victory gardenwar effort

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ICTs and Small Holder Farming

By Janet Achora on June 29th, 2017 in Communication Technology, Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles

Building on how the communications revolution could transform the lives of hundreds of millions of farmers in developing countries is…  Read More

Tags: agriculturedeveloping countriesICTskenyaSeptember 2016Social Networks

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Can We Trust For-Profit Corporations to Protect Our Privacy?

By Wilhelm Klein on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

Can we trust for-profit corporations to protect our privacy? Are these compatible concepts and institutions? These are difficult questions to…  Read More

Tags: corporate social responsibilitycorporationsPrivacySeptember 2016snowden

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The Paradox of the Uberveillance Equation

By MG Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Magazine Articles, Privacy & Security

Members of the “Internet Governance, Security, Privacy and the Ethical Dimension of ICTs in 2030” Panel at the 2016 WSIS…  Read More

Tags: PrivacySeptember 2016surveillanceuberveillance

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How Not to Network a Nation

By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. By Benjamin Peters. M.I.T. Press, 2016, 312 pages. Reviewed by Loren Graham.  …  Read More

Tags: communismcyberneticshistoryinformation systemsRussiaSeptember 2016Soviet Internet

Bus drivers across the West Midlands were equipped with mini DNA kits in 2012 to help police track anyone who spit at them or fellow passengers.

Can Good Standards Propel Unethical Technologies?

By Katina Michael on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion

Figure 1. Bus drivers across the West Midlands were equipped with mini DNA kits in 2012 to help police track…  Read More

Tags: ethicsimplantspervasive technologySeptember 2016Standards

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Is Ethics an Emerging Property?

By Greg Adamson on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles, President's Message, Societal Impact

“Can we program ethics into Artificial Intelligence?” was the topic of a keynote panel initiated by SSIT at the July…  Read More

Tags: artificial intelligenceCodes of Ethicsethicsnorbert wienerSeptember 2016

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Updating a Declaration

By John Havens on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles

It appears that humanity’s great challenge for this century is to extend cooperative human values and institutions to autonomous technology…  Read More

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Crossing the Evolutionary Gap

By Joe Carvalko on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Fiction, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible. — Ray…  Read More

Tags: artificial intelligenceDecember 2016ethicsfictionfuture

Home Is Where the AI Heart Is

By Isabel Pedersen on June 29th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Magazine Articles, Robotics

The desire to create a sentient Artificial Intelligence (Al) as complex as a human intelligence, or one that even surpasses…  Read More

Tags: Androidartificial intelligenceAsunaDecember 2016

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