Category: Ethics

The United States military has a long tradition of driving technological innovation and the field of neurotechnology is no exception….  Read More

I recently watched The Martian, a great advertisement for engineering. Back in the real world, I read an October 7,…  Read More

At the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS’15), SSIT was greatly honored with an opening address to…  Read More

Slavery is the coercive and controlled use of another human. Contrary to the belief that the practice ended in the…  Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where does wearable technology exist? The question is more complex than it might first appear, when one considers the thin…  Read More

I have often wondered what it would be like to rid myself of a keyboard for data entry, and a…  Read More

“Security” is a Latin word which means “without care,” from the Latin prefix “Se” (meaning “without”) and “curity” meaning “care.”…  Read More

A secure crib and a baby monitor are on the “must-have” safety checklist for many new parents. But when you…  Read More

By Ahmed S. Khan. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis), 2012. Reviewed by Karl D. Stephan   Anyone who doesn’t know…  Read More

In many respects, information and communication technologies (ICTs) pose new challenges to society. It is worth recognizing what ICTs represent…  Read More

A set of technologies, loosely referred to as “artificial agents,” is becoming more pervasive and more powerful in the current…  Read More

  Civil commitment (i.e., civil involuntary hospitalization and treatment) is sometimes necessary to treat some psychiatric patients, especially those believed…  Read More

Technologists are problem solvers. We work out answers to questions (sometimes simple, sometimes difficult), and apply these to the world….  Read More