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|| Professional Ethics || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
If Apple's employees refused to help the F.B.I. access the contents of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, their decision would be supported by the Association for Computing Machinery.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A group of computer science students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and North Carolina State University examined how gender impacts the acceptance of contributions on the open source code repository site GitHub.
|| Future of Work || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The World Economic Forum warned in a report that advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and other modern technologies are currently likely to lead to a net loss of 5.1 million jobs worldwide by the year 2020.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Start-ups say that they can eliminate biases and create more skilled and diverse workplaces, but data science will probably still need human supervision.
|| Future of Work || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
In this interview, Brynjolfsson and McAfee explore the implications of automation: who will win (workers with tech and creative skills), who will lose (the middle class), and how business should respond to the coming tech surge (develop ways to race with machines, not against
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Algorithms are choosing who's the right fit to sell fast food or handle angry cable customers, by sizing up the human candidates' voices.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The European Court of Justice, in a broadly worded directive, stated that all individuals in the countries within its jurisdiction had the right to prohibit Google from linking to items that were “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the p
|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Ideally, ethics, law, and policy would line up, but often they don’t in the real world. Should we trust robotic cars to share our road, just because they are programmed to obey the law and avoid crashes?
|| General Ethics || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A quick discussion on whether Batman should kill the Joker from the views of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes, John Rawls, and Friedrich Nietzche.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The article looks at the possible reasons why computer voices skew female, inluding biology, history, and casting.
|| General Ethics || Report || Short (5 min or less)
A brief primer on the definition of ethics.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A computer science graduate student exposes that 87 percent of all Americans could be uniquely identified using only three bits of information, highlighting that almost all information can be "personal" when combined with enough other relevant bits of data.
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
In science-fiction author Cory Doctorow's short story "Scroogled," a woman shrugs when she sees "Immigration--Powered by Google" on an airport sign, but that's just the beginning of the search giant's presence in a not-too-distant future.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The article argues that are living in a world that has been designed for men because for the most part, we haven’t been collecting data on women. It highlights why this is and why it is problematic.
Professional Ethics || Report || Long (10+ min)
The 2018 edition of the Association of Computing Machinery's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct.
Misinformation || Report || Long (10+ min)
Report on the spread of misinformation in the Philippines through social media.