My research shows how engineers in companies often feel little power to account for the ethics of what they create, and my student activism shows how universities often reproduce similar dynamics, harming their community in the process. Here are some ways students can---and must---resist.
By David Gray Widder, June 2024
AI ethics is experiencing two crises: It is disconnected from communities being impacted by AI and largely funded by and dependent on tech companies profiting from harms. Drawing on anarchist ideas, AI ethicists have recently started building tools to challenge this status quo. What else can AI ethics learn from anarchism?
By William Agnew, June 2024
This article describes what it's like to work at an employee-owned technology cooperative, grappling with working conditions and the present state of the tech industry. The benefits of unionization are described, as are attempts to resist and refuse oppressive tech through consciousness of and engagement with struggles for justice around the world.
By Alex Ahmed, June 2024
By Fabien Scalzo, June 2023
Four "who-ristic" questions to ask yourself when designing artificially intelligent educational technologies that will actually benefit people.
By Rod D. Roscoe, April 2023
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
By Diane Golay, April 2020
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
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
By Christine T. Wolf, Ezinne Nwankwo, April 2019
By Parang Saraf, January 2019
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
In a period of rapid technological change, there is a risk of ethics taking a back seat.
By Simon Winter, October 2018
By Nisha Panwar, Shantanu Sharma, December 2017
By Jenn Schiffer, December 2017
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
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
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
What can 1,000 scientists achieve when they invest one hour doing voluntary work?
By Nur Al-huda Hamdan, September 2016
By Sean Follmer, March 2015
By Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Sean Follmer, October 2014
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
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
By Matthew Kay, Dimitris Mitropoulos, Wolfgang Richter, Lora Oehlberg, Lea Rosen, September 2012
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