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Thanks to my wonderful colleagues @scuethics & @SantaClaraUniv, you can now read a version of my postman analogy on #NetNeutrality @sfchronicle sfchronicle.com/opinion/open…
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A. Amer retweeted
9 Oct 2023
"Perhaps the most dangerous misconception is that #disinformation targets only the unsavvy or uneducated, that it works only on ‘others’... [W]e may have trouble seeing the problem when content aligns with our political identities." Or when we are in shock and pain. #ethics
9 Oct 2023
Don't be an "unwitting agent" in the #misinformation warfare. Article from 2019, ever relevant: "#Disinformation's Spread: #Bots, Trolls, and All of Us": information-professionals.or… #ethics #internet #socialmedia #tech
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A. Amer retweeted
12 Aug 2022
Three months ago I heard Salman Rushdie speak at the PEN World Voices Festival. He said: “A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb … But we are not helpless … We can sing the truth & name the liars.” We must tell better stories than the tyrants.
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Like computing & philosophy? Join us on the 22nd-24th for the International Association of Computing & Philosophy's 2022 meeting at SCU (a limited number of physical spots are available through Saturday & free virtual registrations closes Wednesday)
scu.edu/engineering/iacap-20…
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A. Amer retweeted
25 Jun 2022
"Facebook declined to answer detailed questions about its filtering systems and policies on data from crisis pregnancy centers. It’s unknown whether the filters caught any... data, but our investigation showed a significant amount made its way to Facebook" revealnews.org/article/faceb…
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Sometimes you want a searing critical analysis of comparative robot ethics … other times you just need a moment of silliness and whimsy.
scu.edu/ethics/internet-ethi…
Thank you, @IEthics, for resurrecting (and so kindly hosting) this particular folly.
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Check out tellmeaskme.com/ to get a glimpse of why I’m lucky to have colleagues like @HooriaJazaieri
5 Mar 2022
Don’t look away.
Don’t look down.
Don’t pretend not to see hurt.
Look people in the eye.
Even when their pain is overwhelming.
And when you’re hurting and in pain, find people who can look you in the eye.
--@BreneBrown
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“Is it ever moral to sacrifice a hostage to save a hostage-taker?” is a question I did not want to ask … again.
But with antivaxxer apologists arguing “yes,” ICUs being overwhelmed, and ethicists policymakers repeatedly avoiding the question, here we are … again.
Is it ethical to judge intent when ICUs are overwhelmed?
It can be unethical *not* to.
Can we be both compassionate & tolerant?
Not if “tolerance” becomes complacent cruelty.
Disagree?
Read #SCUIlluminate & feel free to comment on how I’m wrong.
scu.edu/illuminate/thought-l…
Students once told me how an elderly professor repeated a lecture.
None of them spoke up.
They loved & didn’t want to embarrass him.
The professor told me how his “inattentive” students didn’t notice a repeated lecture.
Students — hard to test, easy to underestimate.
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I am speechless in awe and delight.
13 Oct 2021
Read the lost thesis of Dennis Ritchie, creator of C programming language & co-creator of Unix: bit.ly/RitchiePhD
Ritchie never got his PhD b/c he didn't want to pay Harvard the thesis binding fee.
(v/@IEEESpectrum)
A. Amer retweeted
11 Oct 2021
The 3rd Annual Second Chances #Hackathon at @santaclaralaw is coming up on 10/23: Register now! law.scu.edu/event/3rd-annual… #ethics #law #criminaljustice #tech #highered cc @colleen_chien @aamer @jtashea
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Is it ethical to judge intent when ICUs are overwhelmed?
It can be unethical *not* to.
Can we be both compassionate & tolerant?
Not if “tolerance” becomes complacent cruelty.
Disagree?
Read #SCUIlluminate & feel free to comment on how I’m wrong.
scu.edu/illuminate/thought-l…
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I still can't quite believe how ethicists backed away from this question (including pundits who dismissed the entire issue with the bad "mass traffic accident" analogy) when it was still just hypothetical.
It stopped being hypothetical weeks ago.
houstonchronicle.com/coronav…
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A. Amer retweeted
21 Jul 2021
«malloc» derives its name from Latin «mal hoc» (meaning “this is evil”). It later became «malòc» in Occitan region where «òc» means “this is it”, and how you say “yes”.
Some Romance languages call it «malsic» from “thus it is”, or «maloi», emphasizing how it’s all about “yes”. 🥸
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