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High Altitude Long-Range Networking (HALoN) for Crisis Communication, a research prototype used in high-stakes environments, enables temporary access to communication infrastructure, particularly for communities and organizations that lack the resources. Engineers must not only ask whether a system can be built, but whether it should be built in a particular way, and who bears the consequences when it is not.
- An AI Ethics Case Study
Assessing the creation of a posthumous AI and the complexities of consent.
As generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot become more common in classrooms, experts at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics are raising important ethical questions about how these technologies are reshaping education.
- A collection of resources from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
A list of AI ethics issues and links to relevant materials from the Ethics Center.
A recent article titled “Why dignity is a troubling concept for AI ethics,” suggests that AI ethics not use the word dignity any more. It's wrong.
- Seeing God and the Sacred in All Things May be Compromised without Thoughtful Consideration and Vigilance
There is an upside and a downside to technological inventions and advances like AI and it often takes some time and experience with them to fully appreciate both the good and the bad that each one of them unleashes.
We should not allow AI to become our parent, unable to make our own choices, forever trapped in an immature state, while the “automated adults” of AI take care of all the grown-up work.
El Salvador's passage of The Bitcoin Law has raised questions about the ethical nature of implementing a cryptocurrency as legal tender. Less than 5% of all Chivo ATMs are located within communities living in formerly guerrilla-controlled territories, harkening to a substantial lack of support by the Salvadoran government and a failure to achieve all three of The Bitcoin Law’s goals.
Facial recognition software is able to transform images into numerical expressions that are generated by neural networks, and facial characterization occurs allowing the software to classify a face into different categories such as age, gender, and emotion. This paper examines the ethical considerations associated with use of this technology.