Author: Adi Robertson; Publisher: The Verge; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses a recent lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against a company called Kochava that was selling data, which in some cases included both personal details and location data that put individuals at risk. This was particularly sensitive in light of the recent overturning of…
Author: Adam Zewe; Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Publication Year: 2022. The following article explains how MIT has begun offering an Experiential Ethics summer course in which students work through real-world ethical dilemmas while often interning in the same fields that they’re studying. The 3-year-old course focuses on ethical concepts like the intercepts of technology with justice and…
Author: Peter Railton; Publisher: Philosophy Bites on Podcast Addict; Publication Year: 2022. The following podcast episode talks about the nature of AI from a philosophical lens and asks what kind of moral responsibility should we give to AI. The episode reckons with the question of whether these entities actually have a moral responsibility. The philosopher, Peter Railton, talks about the many issues and…