Digital technology is often our friend, but just as often our enemy. “Fake news,” “disinformation,” “deep fakes,” “assaults on privacy,” “algorithmic biases,” and “surveillance capitalism” – among ...

Innovation propels us forward, driving both organizations and individuals to adapt and thrive in today's ever-evolving era. Now, let’s be clear: We are stepping into a precarious phase of human ...

Starting in the 1950s, the world has undergone a technology shift unlike anything in history. From computer processors that take up a room shrinking literally to the head of a pin, the developed world ...

Stanford aims to conduct research to “benefit society,” but how are researchers ensuring their work lives up to this mission? Select centers across campus are making concentrated efforts to ...

Ann Skeet (@leaderethics) is the senior director of leadership ethics, and Brian Green is director, technology ethics, both at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views ...

Anthropic’s refusal to dilute safeguards against domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal use marks a rare ...

The world has become digitised, leading to an ever-increasing range of applications. Thus, there now exists global deep-seated dependency on digital technology. This digitisation of everything ...

A look at how ethical questions can be understood and addressed through technology. In his essay introducing this year’s class of Innovators Under 35, Andrew Ng argues that AI is a general-purpose ...

When you’re experimenting with human brains, or even monkey brains, you’re experimenting with the organ that keeps a creature alive. It’s our brains, with all their synapses and neurons, that make us ...

This article is republished with permission by the World Economic Forum. It originally appeared on the World Economic Forum Blog, Sept. 28, 2021. The article was written by Brian Green, director, ...

The siloed and insulated nature of how the tech sector approaches innovation is sidelining ethical considerations, it has been claimed, diminishing public trust in the idea that new technologies will ...

Technology does not automatically close governance gaps but requires accountability to be embedded at the design stage.