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Tag: ethics
The Privacy Slippery Slope
By Jim Isaak on November 10th, 2017 in Articles, Ethics, Privacy & Security
Where did the privacy slippery slope begin? Or perhaps asking the question with more focus, when did we start trading… Read More
Operationalizing SSIT’s 5 Pillars: Pillar 2: Ethics, Human Values and Technology
By Paul Cunningham on September 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles, President's Message
Pillar 2 is focused on professional and research ethics, ethics in the development of technologies, ethics in the context of Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Technology, as well as engineering ethics education.
Black Mirror
By Doug Hill on August 1st, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
The future as depicted in works of science fiction, especially of the multiplex variety, is almost uniformly dystopian. The bleakness… Read More
Algorithmic Bias: Addressing Growing Concerns
By Guest Author on July 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Leading Edge, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
In the context of the IEEE Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems, and with support… Read More
Can We Program Ethics into AI?
By Keith Miller on July 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
At the IEEE 2016 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, held in Melbourne, Australia, July 13–15, 2016, Keith… Read More
Getting from 1932 to 1945
By Guest Author on July 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Societal Impact
Responsibilities of Scientists and Engineers in Times of Chaos and Upheaval If the future is coming at an ever accelerating… Read More
Speaking Out against Socially Destructive Technologies
By Katina Michael on July 28th, 2017 in Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Magazine Articles, Societal Impact
Norbert Wiener and the Call for Ethical Engagement Over the last century, the greatest acceleration of technological development has come… Read More
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
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
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
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
Recommendations for Future Development of Artificial Agents
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Ethics, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact
A set of technologies, loosely referred to as “artificial agents,” is becoming more pervasive and more powerful in the current… Read More
Military Robots: Mapping the Moral Landscape
By ieeessit on June 29th, 2017 in Book Reviews, Magazine Articles, Robotics, Societal Impact
By Jai Galliott. Surrey, U.K.: Ashgate, 2015, 266 pp. Reviewed by Tim McFarland Perhaps the most well-known, and controversial, development… Read More
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