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Scientists pride themselves on being keen observers, but many seem to have trouble spotting the problems right under their noses. Those who run labs have a much rosier picture of the dynamics in their research groups than do many staff members working in the trenches.
A scandal over an academic’s use of Facebook data highlights the need for research scrutiny.
The breadth of social and moral questions raised requires a new architecture for democratic debate, insists Simon Burall.
A new algorithm is trying to automate the process of identifying gang crimes. But some scientists warn that far from reducing gang violence, the program could do the opposite by eroding trust in communities, or it could brand innocent people as gang members.
Schools that helped produce some of Silicon Valley's most prominent leaders are hustling to bring a more medicine-like morality to computer science.
Opioids. Fracking. Zika. GMOs. Scientists should be speaking up about all sorts of science-based issues that affect our lives. Especially now, when Trump administration officials tell us that climate change is debatable.
The nearly 60,000-member American Geophysical Union took the bold step of revising its ethics policy to treat harassment, discrimination and bullying as scientific misconduct, with the same types of penalties for offenders. Other scientific organizations have not adopted that standard.
A primer on the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the ICT sector and opportunities for positive impact.
Scientists fear a crackdown on embryo research if President Trump pays attention to scientific advances.
How Anne Wojcicki led her company from the brink of failure to scientific pre-eminence.
An article considering both the efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge.
Concern over the use of public data spurs guideline update.
Regulations are deterring research that could lead to disease treatments, say scientists.
Leaders in the fields of AI and robotics, including Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman, have signed a letter calling on the United Nations to ban lethal autonomous weapons.
Fertility centres are making a massive push to increase preimplantation genetic diagnosis in a bid to eradicate certain diseases.
As neural nets push into science, researchers probe back
Plagiarism. Cheating. Lying. Should these scientists get a second chance?
Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields – but how do we make sure it behaves morally?
Without data on how artificial intelligence is affecting jobs, policymakers will fly blind into the next industrial revolution, warn Tom Mitchell and Erik Brynjolfsson.
Rapid developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled scientific racism to enter a new era, in which machine-learned models embed biases present in the human behavior used for model development.
