ACM Ethics
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Helping promote ethics in computing & related professions. Re/posts ≠ endorsement - intended to inspire discussion. ethics.acm.org is where you can find the Code and other supporting resources #ACMCodeofEthics #IReadTheCode
“White Sands Missile Range US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left [pilots] within 100s of miles unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, the medevac pilots got disoriented & crashed into a mountain.” www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
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"Consent and Consequences: An #AI #Ethics Case Study": scu.edu/ethics/focus... #tech #internet #privacy
Consent and Consequences
Assessing the creation of a posthumous AI and the complexities of consent.
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"[A]s #socialmedia collapses on itself, the future points to a quieter, more fractured, more human web, something that no longer promises to be everything, everywhere, for everyone": noemamag.com/the-last-day... #ethics #internet #tech #business #bots #design #education
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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"Choosing the correct answer in a quiz is usually straightforward. Deciding what to say when a customer is furious, an employee becomes defensive during feedback, or a coworker ignores a safety rule is a different challenge." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu
Build Realistic Branching Scenarios With AI
Learn how to design branching scenarios with AI to prepare employees for real-world decision-making challenges.
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“Instead of trying to ‘catch’ AI use, focus on designing assignments that encourage process, reasoning, and authentic engagement.” #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu
AI Detectors Are Out, New Approaches Are In
"A growing number of universities have prohibited AI detectors, arguing they are ‘unreliable’ indicators of cheating. But where does that leave faculty, who know all too well that cheating is rampant in the age of AI?"
insidehighered.com
I tried to lay out my thoughts on the N249CP medevac crash in New Mexico during the White Sands Missile Range GPS jamming exercise in an HN comment: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4918...
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking | Hacker News
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I have a joke about Procrustes but it's always either too long or too short.
Peter Orlowicz@peterorlowicz.bsky.social · 2y agoI have a joke about Sisyphus, it's not that funny but people keep asking me to tell it over and over again.
"How #AI Is Helping States Cut Through Decades of Red Tape": hai.stanford.edu/news/how-ai-... #ethics #law #tech #research #gov
How AI Is Helping States Cut Through Decades of Red Tape | Stanford HAI
Stanford researchers scanned 500 million words of state law to reveal the stunning growth of reporting requirements, and are now giving governments a tool to clean them up.
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"Readings in #AI #Ethics": A curated list from back in 2019--many still very relevant: scu.edu/ethics/inter... #highered #tech
Readings in AI Ethics
A non-exhaustive list aims to provide a starting point for better-informed conversations.
scu.edu
“Minnesota in May became the first state in the nation to pass legislation banning the practice of using AI to digitally remove clothing from a pictured individual.” www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...
Judge denies bid by Musk's xAI to block Minnesota nudification ban - UPI.com
A federal judge on Friday turned down a request by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company to block a law banning nudification technology.
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What is universal design? How does it appear in tech? In our final Disability Pride ACM Recommended Reads: "Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability," by Lichen Hamraie, explore these questions. Explore more books that celebrate #DisabilityPride here: bit.ly/4wFgEI9
"Ignorance is the parent of fear..." - Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
Europe's draft cybersecurity standard for AI systems, prEN 18282, correctly identifies attack surfaces unique to AI: training data, model weights, prompts, and connected tools. ACM's Europe Technology Policy Committee recommends six strengthening measures. www.acm.org/public-polic...
The July issue of #AIMatters is out! This issue * Interviews with 2025 AAAI/ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awardees Akari Asai & Noah Golowich * AI Ethics & Policy Column on Agentic AI in High-Stakes Domains * Conference Reports Ed. Ella Scallan @aihuborg sigai.acm.org/main/2026/07...
VOLUME 11, ISSUE 4, 2026 - ACM SIGAI
Full Issue Click here for the July 2026 issue Individual Articles 1. Table of Contents 2. Letter from the EditorBy Ella Scallan Interviews with 2025 AAAI/ACM Doctoral Dissertation Awardees3.…
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What's in our latest popular newsletter #AdvancesInComputing: - AI's impact on programming - Evaluating physical safety for LLMs - Do we still a mouse? and more. Share and subscribe: buff.ly/X9BPH96
New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
I highly recommend watching the scenes from Silicon Valley that take place in a data center. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM3V...
Micah@rincewind.run · 6d agoI mean this is fundamentally one of the big reasons why data centers have no local constituency: they don’t actually create a lot of jobs they’ll employ some folks during construction but the actual day to day operation of a data center really doesn’t need many people, especially given its size
Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and…
Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law
One of my favourite science fiction novels is 'Rainbows End' by Vernor Vinge. The year is 2025 (yes, seriously), and the world is a mixture of the familiar and the bizarre. Advances in medicine allow older people to become mobile and youthful again, but these newly young old people are unprepared for the world in which they awaken, full of digital wonders and wearable tech, particularly augmented reality, which is everywhere.
technollama.co.uk
OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India's largest news agencies, which supplies text and video…
OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit
A fascinating ruling from the High Court of Delhi in India regarding the very high-profile case of ANI Media v OpenAI (decision here). Asian News International (ANI) is one of India's largest news agencies, which supplies text and video syndication to broadcasters and publishers across South Asia. They sued OpenAI alleging copyright infringement during the training phase, as well as reproduction of its articles on the output phase.
technollama.co.uk
"[she] admitted to the WSJ that she records most of her first dates by putting her phone on the table or chair. Afterwards, she asks Anthropic’s Claude how the date went, wondering if she could be 'more engaging or empathetic'"
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoDefinitionally, these are not “friends.”
Gift article www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... "They include images from 'Celebgate,' a 2014 hack that resulted in the leak of private [female celebrity] photos...plus several collections of deepfake celebrity porn....Meta allegedly downloaded...“GirlsDoPorn MegaPack” archives"
Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?
Filings from a recent lawsuit allege that the tech company accessed—and distributed—copyrighted adult films, blueprints for 3-D-printable handguns, celebrity deepfakes, and more.
theatlantic.com
"Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing." - Thales of Miletus, as quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, I, 36
"If a signed contract can be silently replaced in your account, what else can quietly change in there?....The supposed source of truth for what a customer agreed to is apparently editable" electrek.co/2026/07/23/t...
Tesla swapped a solar owner's lease contract for the Book of Enoch
A Tesla solar customer opened their lease contract online to find the Book of Enoch instead. Electrek confirmed the bizarre document swap with Tesla.
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