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There’s a long, tangled debate over how to teach engineers ethics—and whether it’s even worth doing. In 1996, a group of researchers wrote a call in the prominent journal Communications of ...
It feels like every day we learn about a new way AI could upend our lives. From threats of the technology replacing jobs en masse to invasive new facial recognition systems, AI and computer ethics ...
The Responsible Computer Science Challenge, spearheaded by the Mozilla Foundation, among others, is a $3.5 million competition aimed at integrating ethics into undergraduate computer science curricula ...
No, says Richard Weiss, a visiting assistant professor of computer science. That’s why he created a course in computer programming and ethics for students at Hampshire College who are not ...
His ethics welcome cultural diversity. This is a vital and enduring message for an understanding of universal human ethics that extends beyond the sphere of computer ethics.
Without people in the room who understand the limitations of automated solutions to ethical issues, the potential for downstream harm escalates, says Bobby Schnabel, a CU Boulder professor of computer ...
The University of Washington computer science department denounced comments made online by a retired professor over a debate about AI ethics, Timnit Gebru’s controversial exit at Google, so ...
Brian Patrick Green is the director of Technology Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.Views are his own. There are many ways to integrate ethical education into the software ...
Last spring, the Department of Computer Science announced the inaugural hiring of 10 Ethics Teaching Assistants, who will develop and deliver curricula around ethics and society in five of the ...
It works to “integrate ethics and responsibility” into U.S. higher education computer science programs. UB was one of 17 educational institutions nationwide to receive the award, organizers announced ...
Brain-computer interfaces could allow soldiers to control weapons with their thoughts and turn off their fear. The ethics are still muddy.