It feels like every day we learn about a new way AI could upend our lives. From threats of the technology replacing jobs en masse to invasive new facial recognition systems, AI and computer ethics ...

This story is part of a series on how we learn—from augmented reality to music-training devices. For the students in Emanuelle Burton’s ethics class, the story is tricky to grok. “They’re like, you ...

In April 2019, Santa Clara University was awarded a grant as one of the winners of the Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge, which promotes innovation and experimentation in the integration ...

The story of modern computer ethics begins, strangely enough, in wartime. As Nazi Germany escalated its bombing raids on England, American mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener volunteered his ...

Let me start with two questions. Do you think ethics is important in the development and application of algorithms or artificial intelligence (AI systems? And do you find it easy to integrate ethics ...

“Ethics” has become an increasingly urgent topic of discussion in the technology industry, from AI ethics to the ethics of robotics, virtual reality, and the ethics of our digital media culture. But ...

Erika Gimbel is a Chicago-based freelance writer who specializes in B2B technology innovation and educational technology. In all of these cases, personal data is accumulated — and manipulated — ...

Two Bowdoin faculty members have teamed up with a colleague at Colby College to announce the launch of a website designed to embed ethical narratives into the teaching of computer science. In April ...

The nonprofit’s founder and chairwoman explains her latest initiative: a $3.5M competition in partnership with the Omidyar Network to explore new ways to teach ethics to computer science students. How ...

I didn’t come up in computer science; I began my career as a physicist. That transition gave me a specific perspective on this situation. That the field of computer science, unlike other sciences, has ...

Last spring, the Department of Computer Science announced the inaugural hiring of 10 Ethics Teaching Assistants, who will develop and deliver curricula around ethics and society in five of the ...

A self-driving car roams the streets of Las Vegas (Reuters) If a small tree branch pokes out onto a highway and there’s no incoming traffic, we’d simply drift a little into the opposite lane and drive ...