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Current Issue – June 2026

Ethical Technology Futures

This Special Issue examines how ethical failures are embedded across the lifecycle of technological innovations, and explores the design, institutional, and educational conditions through which they can be addressed.

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• Book Review — Listen In: How Radio Changed the Home by A. David Wunsch Posted in: Articles, Book Reviews, Communication Technology, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - The concept of broadcasting had its roots in a form of the telephone: a technique of narrowcasting where wealthy people… ...  Read More
• Teaching Justice: Reimagining STEM Education for Ethical AI Systems by Kem-Laurin Lubin Posted in: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Commentary, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - The designers, engineers, and computer scientists we teach today will shape the systems of tomorrow–we need to teach them to… ...  Read More
• Agents of Change: Decoding Human Voices in Large Language Models by Jacquiline Cardosa Posted in: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Commentary, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - When AI algorithms fail or deviate from their intended outcomes, resulting in negative impacts on society, they themselves cannot be… ...  Read More
• Collective Care for Ethical Innovation: Applying the “Binder Test” to Home Care Technologies by Ryan Tennant Posted in: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Case Studies, Commentary, Ethics, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - Aligning design with collective care refocuses requirements for development toward safety, accountability, and the real networks that deliver care. Until… ...  Read More
• Who Gets Left Behind? The Uncomfortable Questions Behind Homecare Innovation by Gaya Bin Noon Posted in: Articles, Commentary, Ethics, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - Since many forms of lifestyle monitoring are “untraditional”—that is to say, they are novel, often experimental, and do not track… ...  Read More
• On the Speculative Terminology Surrounding AI by Colin Ashruf Posted in: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Commentary, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - Calling something intelligent, even artificially intelligent, ever so subtly implies that it is more than just a thing, more than… ...  Read More
• Benefit–Risk Assessment in the Regulation of Pharmaceuticals by Sara L. Eggers Posted in: Articles, Commentary, Ethics, Health & Medical, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - FDA’s benefit–Risk assessment is an integrated judgment about the meaningfulness of benefit, the acceptability of risk, and the tolerance of… ...  Read More
• Locating Accountability and Centering the Margins for Ethical Technology Futures by Heather Love Posted in: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Case Studies, Editorial & Opinion, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - Whereas artificial intelligence and technological innovation continue to be heralded as producing ground-breaking advancements in society, the question of whether… ...  Read More
• Intentional Technology Use by Ketra Schmitt Posted in: Articles, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Editorial & Opinion, Environment, Ethics, Human Impacts, Magazine Articles, Social Implications of Technology, Societal Impact - Opting in to the tech we want and need means being intentional with technology choices and time. ...  Read More

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