Past Issues

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine - Past Issues 2014 - present

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  • December 2024

    Ethics of Defense?

    The notion that engaging in defense research—at all—is essentially immoral is not an uncommon view. I want to pose the…  Read More

  • September 2024

    Technology and Analytics for Global Development

    Sustainable Global Development has been of great concern for decades, yet the world continues to grapple with this “wicked problem.”…  Read More

  • June 2024

    Fixing AI With Interdisciplinary Approaches

    Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a disruptive force. While AI-generated responses can initially seem impressive, LLM and AI…  Read More

  • March 2024

    Advancing Sustainable Development Goals With AI

    AI and data technologies’ ability to harness and interpret large and varied amounts of data shows the potential to overcome…  Read More

  • December 2023

    Artificial Intelligence: Rocket or Racket?

    The increasing digitalization of our social systems has led to the development of agentic computational artifacts. If socio-technical systems (STSs)…  Read More

  • September 2023

    Artificial Intelligence Everywhere

    Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming people’s access to and attitudes toward knowledge. It is an extremely powerful technology,…  Read More

  • June 2023

    Securitization for Sustainability of People and Place

    The purpose of this special issue is to explore and address complex securitization-related challenges, from a broader perspective and across…  Read More

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    March 2023

    Toxic Technology

    We have developed a deep and special relationship with our devices. In many dimensions this relationship has been undeniably beneficial….  Read More

  • June 2022

    Modern Indentured Servitude

    The asymmetry of power within the next-generation socio–technical systems, especially those involving AI, raises the prospect of an insidious threat…  Read More

  • March 2022

    Decolonizing Technology

    Developing, evaluating, and disseminating IT research prototypes for and with indigenous partners is both challenging and rewarding. In this issue…  Read More

  • September 2022

    Technological Stewardship and Responsible Innovation

    Responsible innovation entails a particular mindset—a mindset that treats all innovation, tech innovation in particular, as inherently possessed of ethical…  Read More

  • December 2022

    Ethics and Education

    Contributive justice needs civic education to explain why people should get involved, civic participation to get people involved, and civic…  Read More

  • December 2021

    Special Issue on Soft Law Governance of Artificial Intelligence

    This special issue is dedicated to examining the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) through soft law. The contents grew out…  Read More

  • September 2019

    Technology, Ethics, and Policy

    The ISTAS series of conferences poses potentially awkward questions that need to be addressed by designers, developers, regulators, and citizens,…  Read More

  • September 2021

    Public Interest Technology

    Technology can be seen as a public good that can benefit all, through an open democratic system of governance, with…  Read More

  • June 2021

    Putting the AI into Building Back fAIrer

    Understanding the societal trajectory induced by AI, and anticipating its directions so that we might apply it for achieving equity,…  Read More

  • March 2021

    Artificial Intelligence for a Fair, Just, and Equitable World

    The rise of AI has fueled the debate on the potential contribution of new technologies to the creation of a…  Read More

  • December 2020

    The Need for Digital Roots

    In The Need for Roots, Simone Weil sets out, firstly, a subjective/objective contrast between rights and obligations, and argues that…  Read More

  • September 2020

    Iron Triangles and Techno-Feudalism

    One of the consequences of Iron Triangles is oligarchy, and decisions being made in the interest of a ruling clique,…  Read More

  • June 2020

    AI and Climate Change

    Digital technologies have created new opportunities to understand and manage global systemic risks, and drive the societal transformations needed to…  Read More