Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own. In his hands-on, skill-building course, professor Das ...

t’s not too early to think about how machines and artificial intelligence (AI) will make tough but ethical decisions. How will an autonomous car facing an unavoidable accident decide whether to injure ...

Everyone knows what a chatbot is, but how about a deadbot? A deadbot is a chatbot whose training data — that which shapes how and what it communicates — is data based on a deceased person. Now let’s ...

The concern of machine ethics and laws spills into the everyday workings of society, not just the domain of defense. Many concepts revolve around the law of armed conflict, societal law, ethical ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Machines are rapidly learning to think on their own, but will the robot revolution lead to a modern utopia – or an apocalypse? Government officials say autonomous vehicles will make transportation ...

Many faith groups are grappling with the ethics of articifial intelligence. (Credit: Image courtesy of Pixabay/Creative Commons via RNS.) Listen At first glance, Pope Francis’s January message to a ...

You may have heard that algorithms will take over the world. But how are they operating right now? We take a look in our series on Algorithms at Work. Machine learning algorithms work blindly towards ...