Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

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Machine learning shows no difference in angina symptoms between men and women

Finding could help overturn the prevailing notion that men and women experience angina differently.
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Key Women's Heart Attack Symptoms Not So Different From Men's, AI Study Finds

Women are more likely to report multiple symptoms, and "the majority of women present just like men."
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Algorithm using racist drug war data to determine Missourians’ freedom

Pretrial risk assessments draw from “deeply flawed data" generated from arrest and conviction records, say researchers.
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Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns

By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar, and Colin DoyleTwenty-seven prominent  researchers from MIT,  Harvard, Princeton, NYU, …
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Inside the R&D of AI ethics

Jonathan Zittrain discusses the Assembly program at the Media Lab and Berkman Klein Center.
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Responsible AI: A guide to the future

The Technology and Public Purpose Project sponsored an event to explore how new, ethical technologies can be developed.
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SXSW 2019 PanelPicker Proposals

Media Lab students, faculty, researchers and affiliates pitching panels at SXSW 2019
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Clearly Complex

A report from the Symposium on Trust and Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles (STEAV).
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Morality in the Machines

Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center are collaborating with MIT scholars to make sure openness and ethics inform AI.
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A Plea for AI That Serves Humanity Instead of Replacing It

The Media Lab and IEEE-SA have announced the creation of the Global Council on Extended Intelligence (CXI).
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AI isn’t a crystal ball, but it might be a mirror

Machine learning and data science can help us better understand and address the underlying causes of poverty and crime.
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Embracing a Future with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

Announcing the Global Council on Extended Intelligence
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Tech’s ethical ‘dark side’: Harvard, Stanford and others want to address it

The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm.Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness later.…
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Don't let the robots rule

Millions flow to steer AI in the right direction.
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Who needs friends when robots are this sociable?

Robots only want your love...and occasionally some anonymized metadata.
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Ethics and Governance AI Fund funnels $7.6M to Harvard, MIT and independent research efforts

A $27 million fund aimed at applying artificial intelligence to the public interest has announced the first targets for its beneficence: $7…
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AI for the public interest fund to explore bias in criminal justice and autonomous vehicles

The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund, created in part by the Omidyar Network, Knight Foundation, and LinkedIn founder …
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Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund commits $7.6M to projects that bolster civil society efforts

The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund today announced $7.6 million in support to nine organizations that aim to bolster…
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Why artificial intelligence is far too human

“Unlike humans, these machine algorithms are much harder to interrogate because you don’t actually know what they know,” says Joi Ito.
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MIT Media Lab to participate in new $27 million initiative on ethics and governance in AI

Bridging the gap between the humanities, the social sciences, and computing by addressing the global challenges of artificial intelligence.