ethics

Like much of the internet, PubPeer is the sort of place where you might want to be anonymous. There, under randomly assigned taxonomic names like …

The European Union is expected to finalize the Platform Work Directive, its new legislation to regulate digital labor platforms, this month. This is the…

When we were teenagers, my brother and I received kidney transplants six days apart. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. He, two years older, was scheduled to…

A major focus of Computer Weekly’s technology and ethics coverage in 2022 was on working conditions throughout the tech sector, from the issue of…

You describe the potential of using candidate-screening technology that takes the form of an online game, like Wasabi Waiter from a company called Knack,…

Some scientists and ethicists think He deserves a chance to prove that he’s capable of producing scientifically valid and ethically sound work. “His case is…

The siloed and insulated nature of how the tech sector approaches innovation is sidelining ethical considerations, it has been claimed, diminishing…

This year, we’ve seen the introduction of powerful generative AI systems that have the ability to create images and text on demand. At the same time,…

A week is a long time in politics—particularly when considering whether it’s okay to grant robots the right to kill humans on the streets of San Francisco.In…

Since then, the quest to proliferate larger and larger language models has accelerated, and many of the dangers we warned about, such as outputting hateful…