health
art
human-machine interaction
learning
artificial intelligence
robotics
architecture
consumer electronics
design
technology
kids
music
wearable computing
networks
politics
entertainment
bioengineering
economy
cognition
history
human-computer interaction
data
archives
machine learning
social science
storytelling
sensors
interfaces
space
environment
wellbeing
covid19
computer science
developing countries
prosthetics
engineering
privacy
social robotics
ethics
civic technology
social media
civic media
imaging
synthetic biology
communications
neurobiology
urban planning
public health
augmented reality
affective computing
virtual reality
biology
transportation
energy
community
biomechanics
data visualization
social change
biotechnology
computer vision
industry
ocean
3d printing
zero gravity
alumni
food
government
genetics
blockchain
racial justice
agriculture
manufacturing
medicine
gaming
data science
women
prosthetic design
construction
creativity
materials
social networks
fashion
open source
behavioral science
banking and finance
security
crowdsourcing
cryptocurrency
systems
collective intelligence
climate change
makers
wiesner
fabrication
internet of things
language learning
performance
neural interfacing and control
cognitive science
bionics
interactive
ecology
autonomous vehicles
perception
human augmentation
civic action
nonverbal behavior
mapping
extended intelligence
physiology
visualization
startup
diversity
physics
clinical science
holography
long-term interaction
gesture interface
networking
point of care
sports and fitness
autism research
orthotic design
marginalized communities
water
trust
natural language processing
electrical engineering
voice
microfabrication
hacking
mechanical engineering
nanoscience
pharmaceuticals
member company
primary healthcare
mechatronics
clinical trials
trade
academia
member event
open access
microbiology
gender studies
rfid
soft-tissue biomechanics
chemistry
real estate
randomized experiment
publishing
biomedical imaging
gis
event
exhibit
cartography
metamaterials
installation
The Technology and Public Purpose Project sponsored an event to explore how new, ethical technologies can be developed.
Scientists seek to learn the decisions human drivers make in collision situations to help predict how autonomous vehicles should respond.
Machine learning and data science can help us better understand and address the underlying causes of poverty and crime.
The latest enthusiasm for eternal life largely stems from the belief that technology will enhance humans and make them immortal.
Four Lab researchers caution against credulous acceptance of rosy humanistic pronouncements.
Massive global Moral Machine study reveals ethics preferences and regional differences
Unlike a normal edit, gene drive systems could lastingly alter or suppress local or global populations of a target species.
Sohan Dsouza speaks on the topic of moral machines.
After researchers resurrected a long-dead pox, some critics argue that it's too easy for scientists to make decisions of global consequence.
Survey maps global variations in ethics for programming autonomous vehicles
Given the power to alter the workings of the natural world, are we morally obligated to use it?
I'm a strong advocate of more open science, and my group tries to carefully consider our moral obligations and publicly admit mistakes.
The morality of preschoolers, trolleys, cookie-eating squirrels, and attempting to define “the consensus” with the Moral Machine Project.
Hiawatha Bray reports on the unrest bubbling up in the tech industry.
Course information
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and the MIT Media Lab are joining forces to launch a global Council on ...
Researchers at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center are collaborating with MIT scholars to make sure openness and ethics inform AI.
“I’m not worried so much about robots developing their own agenda and taking over the world."
Media Lab researchers are part of a growing movement at MIT to explore the regulatory frontiers of AI—in society and in our hearts and minds
BayesDB is open-source AI software that lets any programmer answer data analysis questions in seconds or minutes with a level of rigor th...
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
The medical profession has an ethic: First, do no harm.Silicon Valley has an ethos: Build it first and ask for forgiveness late...
For the interested reader:If you'd like to learn more about the topics covered in my post, Making new (robot) friends: Understandin...
Reid Hoffman likes to say, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Usually, he’s referring to tech companies like the ones he has ...
Biomolecules to biopolitics: hormones with institutional biopower! Open Source Estrogen combines do-it-yourself science, body and gender ...
What are the legal rights of a robot? This is one of the many questions MIT Media Lab researcher Kate Darling contemplates as part of her...
Understanding children's relationships with social robots
Given the cross-border impact of AI and related technologies, what are appropriate and workable governance mechanisms that can operate at...
Creative Ethics of Cognitive Intelligence at Cannes Lions
“Unlike humans, these machine algorithms are much harder to interrogate because you don’t actually know what they know,” says Joi Ito.
Video: AI for all, not just a few.
Debating the ethics of AI-enabled marketing.
Awad, Edmond (2017). Moral Machine: Perception of Moral Judgment Made by Machines (Master's Thesis).
Algorithms used by the police are better at identifying some racial groups than others. Why is hardly anyone studying this?
Kory Westlund, J., & Breazeal, C. (2015). Deception, Secrets, Children, and Robots: What’s Acceptable? Workshop on The Emerging Policy and Ethics of Human-Robot Interaction, held in conjunction with the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
Peter Krafft, Michael Macy, Sandy Pentland. (2017). Bots as Virtual Confederates: Design and Ethics. The 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW).