COLUMN: Careers
A.I. in a Liberal Arts College: The Renaissance of Humanistic Education
By Fabien Scalzo, June 2023
Articles Tagged: Codes of ethics
Articles & Features
SECTION: Features
Building Inclusive and Equitable Artificial Intelligence for Education
Four "who-ristic" questions to ask yourself when designing artificially intelligent educational technologies that will actually benefit people.
By Rod D. Roscoe, April 2023
From individual consent to collective refusal
Big tech companies have been found to misuse personal data, often collected without consent. What can the public do to change unjust collection and use of their personal data, and what role can computer scientists play in these efforts?
By Jonathan Zong, December 2020
COLUMN: Letter from the editors
Taking responsibility as computer science professionals
By Diane Golay, April 2020
SECTION: Features
Decolonizing design through the perspectives of cosmological others: Arguing for an ontological turn in design research and practice
A closer attention to cultural and cosmological difference as the basis for thinking about how we redesign our own modern technological infrastructures may be the way to decolonize design research.
By Ahmed Ansari, November 2019
Africa's social contract with AI
The ethics of artificial intelligence in Africa should come from the social contract theories and ethical frameworks developed by African philosophers. But if AI researchers fail to incorporate cultural differences, they risk perpetuating the same injustices witnessed during colonial times.
By Ezinne Nwankwo, Belona Sonna, November 2019
COLUMN: INIT
Interpreting AI and its place in our worlds
By Christine T. Wolf, Ezinne Nwankwo, April 2019
COLUMN: Advice
Navigating through the hype that surrounds machine learning
By Parang Saraf, January 2019
SECTION: Features
Artificial intelligence technologies: Eight viewpoints
Every year, the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence sponsors a student essay writing contest. This article presents a clear perspective on last year's winners, which represent a diverse collection of opinions on artificial intelligence.
By Johanna Schacht, January 2019
Human values in a digital society
In a period of rapid technological change, there is a risk of ethics taking a back seat.
By Simon Winter, October 2018
COLUMN: Advice
The excessive power of Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V in CS research and career development
By Nisha Panwar, Shantanu Sharma, December 2017
COLUMN: Careers
Software is for humans
Holding our industry accountable
By Jenn Schiffer, December 2017
SECTION: Features: Motivating Participation
The ethics of gamification
Gamification is manipulation; at least that is what many people think. Because gamification is a powerful tool for modifying behaviors, how we should consider ethics specifically for gamification?
By Andrzej Marczewski, September 2017
SECTION: Features: On demand labor
The hidden faces of automation
As we dream of automation, we always need people to calibrate and train what we automate. Automation has hidden human faces.
By Lilly Irani, December 2016
The gig economy
Gig jobs have become a structural aspect of contemporary economic landscape, creating unique social and technological challenges. How can policies and design solutions better protect gig workers and mitigate the risks participants face?
By Paolo Parigi, Xiao Ma, December 2016
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
CHI 2016
What can 1,000 scientists achieve when they invest one hour doing voluntary work?
By Nur Al-huda Hamdan, September 2016
Stay weird, stay different
By Sean Follmer, March 2015
Do no evil in research
By Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Sean Follmer, October 2014
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
Drones and the digital panopticon
The XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from conference overviews to privacy and security, from HCI to cryptography. Selected blog posts, edited for print, will be featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each post in its entirety.
By Lea Rosen, March 2013
SECTION: Features
Facing the African ICTD academic divide
This article stitches together the current journey of ICTD researchers based in Africa who formed a virtual network, which hopes to contribute toward the enhancement of representation within the academic ICTD community.
By Kathleen Diga, December 2012
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
Blogs
By Matthew Kay, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Wolfgang Richter, Lora Oehlberg, Lea Rosen, September 2012
Introduction
By Justin Solomon, June 2008
Ethical lessons learned from computer science
By Richard Bergmair, June 2008
Introduction
By Jeremy T. Lanman, April 2004
Multilevel security
By Stephany Filimon, April 2004
Should computer scientists worry about ethics? Don Gotterbarn says, "yes1!"
By Saveen Reddy, April 2004
Ethical lessons learned from computer science
By Richard Bergmair, April 2004
Maurice Elzas on simulation ethics
By Kostas Pentikousis, December 2002
The Road Less Traveled: it shouldn't be allowed!
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, November 1995
Computer-based decision-making
By Jeff Robbins, November 1995
Copyright law meets the World Wide Web
By Matt Rosenberg, November 1995
Ethical considerations in gender-oriented entertainment technology
By Melissa Chaika, November 1995
Social responsibility and the CS student
By Saul Jimenez, May 1995
Digital liberties
By Lorrie Faith Cranor, May 1995
Should computer scientists worry about ethics?
By Saveen Reddy, May 1995
How to be a terrible thesis advisor
By Nigel Ward, February 1995