Surveillance

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

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Author: N/A; Publisher: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Publication Year: 2020. In the following article, Dr. Müller at Stanford discusses why artificial intelligence (AI) system scandals are covered differently in the media. For a problem to qualify as a problem for AI ethics would require that we do not readily know what the right thing to do is. In this sense, job loss, theft, or killing with AI is not a problem in ethics, but whether these…

LexisNexis Sued by Immigration Advocates Over Data Practices

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Author: Sebastian Klovig Skelton; Publisher: Computer Weekly; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how LexisNexis, a U.S. data broker, is being sued for allegedly violated consumer privacy and protection rights in Illinois. Essentially, they are aggregating people’s personal information onto their platform where access can be purchased by third parties. This information is both public and non-public, and the…

Amazon Shares Ring Doorbell Footage with Law Enforcement, Sometimes Without the User’s Permission

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Author: Sarah Lynch; Publisher: Fast Company; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Amazon shared Ring footage with authorities 11 times this year without the user’s knowledge or consent. While their guideline is to notify users, Amazon “reserves the right to respond immediately to urgent law enforcement requests for information in cases involving imminent danger of death or serious physical…

Big Tech and Data Ethics

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Author: Sam Gilbert; Publisher: Bennett Institute of Public Policy, Cambridge; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses the following topics with respect big tech companies: privacy and surveillance; bias; discrimination; and injustice in algorithmic decisioning; encoding of ethical assumptions in autonomous vehicle systems; artificial general intelligence as an existential risk to humanity; software user interface design as an…

The Ethical Questions That Haunt Facial-Recognition Research

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Author: Richard Van Noorden; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2020. In the following article, science journalist Richard Van Noorden discusses how facial recognition technology is being used for malicious purposes. The Chinese government has abused facial recognition technology to profile Uyghurs via mass surveillance (camera networks) in order to send them to “re-education camps.” The algorithm had been…

Ethical Aspects of Facial Recognition Systems in Public Places

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Author: Phillip Brey; Publisher: Emerald Insight; Publication Year: 2004. The following essay examines ethical aspects of the use of facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes in public and semipublic areas, focusing particularly on the balance between security, privacy and civil liberties. The ethical analysis will be based on a careful analysis of current facial recognition technology, of its use in Smart CCTV systems…

Ethical Issues of Facial Recognition Technology

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Author: Patrick Gray; Publisher: TechRepublic; Publication Year: 2022. The following article describes how facial recognition technology undoubtedly has remarkable benefits in our society. In many ways it increases security and accelerates identification for access purposes. However, there are a multitude of ethical concerns that come into play with its usage. The first is transparency. People are uninformed with how their…

7 Short-Term AI Ethics Questions

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Author: Orlando Torres; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how data scientists must be reactive instead of proactive when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) tech dangers. He mentions 7 important topics in which we should create questions and be proactive with potential issues: 1). Biases in algorithms; 2). Transparency of algorithms; 3). Supremacy of algorithms; 4). Fake news and…

Algorithms Are Making Economic Inequality Worse

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Author: Mike Walsh; Publisher: Harvard Business Review; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how the algorithms we design can be used to exploit workers and create an underclass of gig laborers who have no real prospects for advancement and economic mobility. The result is that there are a small class of well paid executives and professional workers who design a system of control for temporary workers…

When AI is Watching Patient Care: Ethics to Consider

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Author: Laurie Flynn; Publisher: Scope, Published by Stanford Medicine; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how hospitals are implementing artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to monitor patient and staff activity. It is combined with cameras and sensors places in strategic locations, such as patient rooms, hallways, and even in bathrooms. The AI can track patient movement and ensures intensive car patients are…