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Past Issues
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine - Past Issues 2014 - present
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March 2025
Becoming Better Consumers of Visual Rhetoric
Just because one knows a general adage or theoretical truth does not entail the ability to put it into practice… Read More
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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