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Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life?

|| Transportation Applications || Media Article, Video || Medium (5-10 min)

The United States military is trying to come to terms with the fact that advanced technology is on the cusp of making it possible for machines like armed drones to make killing decisions.

URL ⇲ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/technology/should-your-d…



Machine Bias

|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.

URL ⇲ https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assess…



Can the presence of a robot affect whether humans behave ethically?

|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

A series of studies at Cornell investigate how humans behave in the company of robots. The article highlights its findings.

URL ⇲ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/can-the-presence-of-a-…



Are Robots Job Creators?

|| Future of Work || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

Two schools of economic thinking have been engaged in a debate about the potential effects of automation on jobs, employment and human activity: Will new technology spawn mass unemployment, as the robots take jobs away from humans? Or will the jobs robots take over release or unveil—or even create—demand for new human jobs? The artcle looks at some of these arguments.

URL ⇲ https://newrepublic.com/article/132441/robots-job-creators



Revealed: how facial recognition has invaded shops – and your privacy

|| Facial Recognition || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

Retailers and hotels are increasingly using facial recognition technology to track your face in order to minimise losses and increase sales, give VIPs preferred treatment and more, giving rise to privacy concerns.

URL ⇲ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/03/revealed-fac…



Apple’s Engineers, if Defiant, Would be in Sync With Ethics Code

|| Professional Ethics || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)

If Apple's employees refused to help the F.B.I. access the contents of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, their decision would be supported by the Association for Computing Machinery.

URL ⇲ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/19/technology/apples-engine…



Americans Feel the Tensions between Privacy and Security Concerns

|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less) || URL ⇲ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/19/americans-…



Ethics for the Information Age, 7th Edition

|| Internet/Privacy || Book || Long (10+ min)



Women are better at coding than men—if they hide their gender

|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

A group of computer science students at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and North Carolina State University examined how gender impacts the acceptance of contributions on the open source code repository site GitHub. They found women's contributions tended to be accepted more that mens, if they hid their gender.

URL ⇲ https://fusion.tv/story/267752/female-programmers-on-github…



Report: Robots, other advances will cost humans 5.1 million jobs by 2020

|| Future of Work || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

The World Economic Forum warned in a report that advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, and other modern technologies are currently likely to lead to a net loss of 5.1 million jobs worldwide by the year 2020.

URL ⇲ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/repo…