The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
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?
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?
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
Discusses the complexity behind "reasonable expectation of privacy" after Duke, Stanford, and Yale universities were discovered to be creating databases off surveillance footage of students outdoors, without their knowledge, and made part of a permanent dataset.
Brief highlight of the reasons why we ought to be concerned about both sides of the political aisle coming together over federal facial recognition regulation.
Technology has allowed personal intimacy and connection to flourish too much, and anywhere. Now every space is a superspace, a place that might be fused together with any other.
Author Jean M. Twenge examines how smartphone and tablet access has impacted the "iGen" (those who grew up around these technologies), including its impact on loneliness, depression, sleep, and other aspects.