#ethtropy aims to create an online repository of opinions and ideas on the ethical design of technology.
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Users, not some #AI program, should determine what they see in #Social #Media. @FukuyamaFrancis, @BarakRichman and @ashishgoel talk about the #Middleware approach and how it should be used to end #Big #Tech’s #Information #Monopoly. @ForeignAffairs ow.ly/muIk50CPE5W
Follow-Up Post – The #Value of #Statistical #Life an estimate of the amount that people are willing to pay to prevent an expected #Death made us wonder about the use of #Ethics in the definition & use of such an important #Social & #Economic term. @TED_ED ow.ly/oLxU50AALPo
Follow-Up Post - #Pricing #Lives: Guideposts for a #Safer #Society. A book in which #KipViscusi presents how society’s undervaluing of #Life puts all of us at #Risk and the groundbreaking #Economic measure that can fix it. @PrincetonUPress ow.ly/Zfyc50AALkU
Perhaps one of the most important benefits of the #Value of #Statistical #Life is that it reveals that the dichotomy between #Risks to #Health and #Risks to the #Economy is often a false one. Article by #KipViscusi. @ForeignAffairs ow.ly/i5En50AAKOh
A closer look to the work of #Michel #Foucault and its major contributions to #Philosophy, and #Surveillance #Studies. #StanfordEncyclopediaOfPhilosophy ow.ly/TwH050Awdm0
In his classic book #Discipline and #Punish #Michel #Foucault argues that the development of #Prisons, #Police #Organizations and #Legal #Hierarchies has merely changed the focus of #Domination from our bodies to our souls. #Surveillance @PenguinUKBooks ow.ly/oYYS50Awd5q
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#Technologies originally developed for #Policing & prisons have expanded into nonjuridical domains & not only they extend #Prison #Spaces into the #Public #Sphere but also deepen #Racial #Hierarchies & engender new systems for #Social #Control. @DukePress ow.ly/rQ3u50Awczv
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After showing how a range of #Discriminatory #Designs encode #Inequity @ruha9 makes a compelling case for #Race itself as a kind of #Technology, designed to stratify and sanctify #Social #Injustice in the architecture of #Everyday #Life. @politybooks ow.ly/5jbW50AvRJu
When it comes to #AI we really need to ask how #AI is shifting #Power. #PratyushaKalluri on how to listen to, amplify, cite and collaborate with communities that have borne the brunt of #Surveillance and #AI #Research and #Development. @nature ow.ly/Vasr50AvRfT
The #Science of #Fake #News. A state-of-art #Research about #Fake #News and the unanswered scientific questions raised by the proliferation of its most recent, #Politically oriented incarnation. @ScienceMagazine ow.ly/kEo150AvQNz
Even if #Technology promotes #Fake #News, it is insufficient to consider it as bad without acknowledging that it is situated in a #Consumer #Society. An entry point for the examination of #Technology & the #Consumption of #Fake #News by @dryellowbean. ow.ly/JIYd50Asf29
We are what we #Consume. Just as what we eat impacts well-being, our #Digital diet influences what we think, feel, do and say. #CarrieBarron on how we can help #Technology help us and other people. Interview by #LeahDismukes. @UTAustin ow.ly/uhfQ50AscXg
Due to #Technology anyone can be a source of news. Again due to Technology we are inundated by #Information. We can also tune into sources that tell us what we want to hear. #StevenSloman on the #Psychology of #Fake #News. Interview by @TaniaLombrozo. @NPR ow.ly/xp8750AsbGe
Adapting to a flood of #News might require a #Social #Change in news #Consumption habits. @LordRavenscraft on why our ability to process #Information is reaching a critical limit and how we can move towards a possible solution. @Medium @ozm ow.ly/abUZ50ArVTt
Nowadays #Surveillance spreads in unimaginable ways, responding to & reproducing the nature of #Modern #Life, seeping into new areas. The #Surveillance analysis of #DavidLyon meets the #Liquid #Modern #World dissected by #ZygmuntBauman. @politybooks ow.ly/fiqX50A8w4d
What are the #Cultural meanings of data-defined bodies? #DavidLyon analyses #Biometrics and emphasizes that #Biometrics #Technologies are ‘racially’ skewed and this has profound #Ontological as well as #Ethical consequences for the industry. #Bioethics. ow.ly/a0Hg50A8vLW
Through #Biometrics bodies may become inscribed with #Identities shaped by longstanding #Social and #Political #Inequalities. In her book "The Machine-Readable #Body", #IrmaVanDerPloeg addresses the issue of #Biomettrics.
Heartbeats can offer continuous #Authentication and can be used instead of passwords and fingerprints. An invasive technology that comes with huge risks for our #Privacy and #Integrity. #NathanielScharping on @ozm. @Medium ow.ly/HrxI50A8sI8
In "The Realist Case for #Global #Reform" #WilliamScheuerman challenges conventional wisdom to reveal a neglected tradition of #Progressive #Realism with much to contribute to debates about #International #Policy and #World #Government. @politybooks ow.ly/CXss50zOB1L
#Technological #Acceleration, according to which the rapid pace of technological change threatens humanity's future, introduced by #JohnHerz, can provide a starting point for any version of #International #Relations #Theory. Article by #WilliamScheuerman. ow.ly/zjaI50zOAmW
