Engineers Say “No Thanks” to Silicon Valley Recruiters, Citing Ethical Concerns
Some engineers are turning down tech recruiters by citing concerns about corporate values
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Facebook's DensePose Tech Raises Concerns About Potential Misuse
Facebook's DensePose technology lets anyone turn 2D images of people into 3D models
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Wearables Bring a Host of Tricky Legal Questions, Says Tech Attorney
Can your employer force you to wear a tracker? Can you replace your natural limbs with prosthetics?
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Forging Voices and Faces: The Dangers of Audio and Video Fabrication
Adobe, Baidu, Google, and others have software that can fabricate convincing video or audio clips of anyone
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Who’s at Fault in Uber’s Fatal Collision?
With a full investigation underway, we can start to untangle the strands of responsibility—and ask what it means for the future of self-driving cars
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Apportioning Blame When Robocars Have Accidents
The death of a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., sparks a blame game
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Why Ethical Robots Might Not Be Such a Good Idea After All
The risks that a robot's ethics might be compromised by unscrupulous actors raise doubts over the wisdom of embedding ethical decision making in real-world safety critical robots
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Michigan’s MiDAS Unemployment System: Algorithm Alchemy Created Lead, Not Gold
A case study into how to automate false accusations of fraud for more than 34,000 unemployed people
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Court Software No Better Than Mechanical Turks at Predicting Repeat Crime
Humans who looked at just two variables performed just as well as commercial software that examined 137
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Lethal Microdrones, Dystopian Futures, and the Autonomous Weapons Debate
The future of weaponized robots requires a reasoned discussion, not scary videos