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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.
Technology is one of the country’s biggest growth industries, but it comes at a price.
Urgent consideration needs to be given to the “careful stewardship” needed over the next ten years to ensure that the dividends from machine learning – the form of artificial intelligence that allows machines to learn from data.
Is it unethical for a Publisher to extract content from an academic author and commercially benefit from the sale of this without returning any of the economic gains back to the provider of that content or his/her employer?
Elon Musk believes artificial intelligence that is much smarter than the smartest human on Earth could result in dangerous situations. He argues that the government must introduce a universal basic income program in order to compensate for automation.
