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- Join us for an online event on November 7
Do chatbots sometimes lead their users to "break with reality"? And what might be done about it?
- Should we demand more control over the integration of AI features into products that we use?
On the ethics of integrating AI (amid claims of widespread adoption)
- A growing need, a growing list of issues, and a growing collection of resources from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
A growing list of AI ethics issues and links to relevant materials from the Ethics Center.
- Resources for Addressing a Key Topic in Internet Ethics
Recordings and related readings about dignity online
- Real friends understand each other, even if imperfectly...
The urgent issue, for now, is to avoid distorting our ideas of friendship and human happiness.
- An upcoming lecture by Shannon Vallor, author of The AI Mirror
Join us on April 29 for this year’s Regan Lecture, addressing AI ethics.
- Power, Constrained
What does leadership look like, in the context of AI development, if the goal is optimizing for the common good?
- Anticipating Decisions
The TikTok case is about privacy, recommendation algorithms, and geopolitics.
- Resources and a call to action
The benefits of AI are much touted; the environmental costs should be discussed just as much.
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