Ethics, Info, Tech: Contested Voices, Values, Spaces

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Saturday, September 19, 2020

AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic mistakes; MIT Technology Review, September 14, 2020

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Abhishek Gupta  archive page Victoria Heath archive page  , MIT Technology Review;  AI ethics groups are repeating one of society’s classic ...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

This Guy is Suing the Patent Office for Deciding an AI Can't Invent Things; Vice, August 24, 2020

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Todd Feathers , Vice;  This Guy is Suing the Patent Office for Deciding an AI Can't Invent Things The USPTO rejected two patents appli...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Algorithms can drive inequality. Just look at Britain's school exam chaos; CNN, August 23, 2020

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Zamira Rahim, CNN;  Algorithms can drive inequality. Just look at Britain's school exam chaos " "Part of the problem is the ...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

The Ethics of Wildlife Photography: Drones Meet Animals; Fstoppers, August 17, 2020

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Mark Dunsmuir , Fstoppers;   The Ethics of Wildlife Photography: Drones Meet Animals " Do photographers have any ethical obligations ...

Self-Driving to Federal Prison: The Trade Secret Theft Saga of Anthony Levandowski Continues; Lexology, August 13, 2020

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Seyfarth Shaw LLP  -  Robert Milligan  and  Darren W. Dummit ;  Self-Driving to Federal Prison: The Trade Secret Theft Saga of Anthony Levan...

Ethicist: Coronavirus reduces complex moral codes to the essential — protect your neighbor; USA Today, August 17, 2020

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Tom Cooper, USA Today;  Ethicist: Coronavirus reduces complex moral codes to the essential — protect your neighbor " It is time not o...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

The Post Office Mess Is Meant to Exhaust You. Don’t Let It.; The New York Times, August 17, 2020

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Charlie Warzel , The New York Times;  The Post Office Mess Is Meant to Exhaust You. Don’t Let It. Trump is “flooding the zone.” It’s a for...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

State officials rush to shore up confidence in Nov. 3 election as voters express new fears about mail voting; The Washington Post, August 16, 2020

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Amy Gardner  and  Seung Min Kim , The Washington Post;  State officials rush to shore up confidence in Nov. 3 election as voters express ne...

The country’s future could hinge on postal workers; The Washington Post, August 16, 2020

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William H. McRaven , The Washington Post;  The country’s future could hinge on postal workers " Today, as we struggle with social uph...

George Pyle: Protect Ben Franklin’s gift to America; The Salt Lake Tribune, August 15, 2020

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George Pyle , The Salt Lake Tribune;  George Pyle: Protect Ben Franklin’s gift to America " Can there be anything more American than...

Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy; MIT Technology Review, August 7, 2020

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Shea Swauger archive page , The New York Times;  Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates thei...

How Trump should change the way journalists understand “objectivity”; Vox, August 4, 2020

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  Sean Illing , Vox;  How Trump should change the way journalists understand “objectivity” " Some of the most interesting thinking on...

Neighbors’ freedom of expression infringed; The Herald, August 15, 2020

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DAVID L. DYE, The Herald ;  Neighbors’ freedom of expression infringed " The presidential election is still almost three months off, ...

Trump’s attacks on the Postal Service deserve sustained, red-alert coverage from the media; The Washington Post, August 15, 2020

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Margaret Sullivan , The Washington Post ;  Trump’s attacks on the Postal Service deserve sustained, red-alert coverage from the media ...

Trump’s Attack on the Postal Service Is a Threat to Democracy—and to Rural America; The New Yorker, August 11, 2020

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Bill McKibbe n , The New Yorker;  Trump’s Attack on the Postal Service Is a Threat to Democracy—and to Rural America " In 2012, when ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

The Death of a Fake Twitter Personality Reveals the Systemic Rot of Academia; Medium, August 11, 2020

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Asher Elbein ,  Medium;  The Death of a Fake Twitter Personality Reveals the Systemic Rot of Academia " The creation of such ...

The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn’t; The New York Times, August 4, 2020

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Jonah Engel Bromwich  and  Ezra Marcus , The New York Times;  The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn’t A professor at Arizona State University d...

Why Parents Should Pause Before Oversharing Online; The New York Times, August 4, 2020

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Stacey Steinberg, The New York Times ;  Why Parents Should Pause Before Oversharing Online As social media comes of age, will we regret al...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

Libraries’ Buchanan Fellows adapt with new skills during pandemic; Vanderbilt University, August 5, 2020

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Vanderbilt University; Libraries’ Buchanan Fellows adapt with new skills during pandemic "Before the pandemic, the fellows for the Et...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Sold: An 1891 Patent by Granville T. Woods, Innovative Black Engineer; Atlas Obscura, July 22, 2020

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Matthew Taub, Atlas Obscura;  Sold: An 1891 Patent by Granville T. Woods, Innovative Black Engineer Woods was prolific, but was largely f...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Congress forced Silicon Valley to answer for its misdeeds. It was a glorious sight; The Guardian, July 30, 2020

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Matt Stoller , The Guardian;  Congress forced Silicon Valley to answer for its misdeeds. It was a glorious sight " As David Cicilline...

Once Science Fiction, Gene Editing Is Now a Looming Reality; The New York Times, July 22, 2020

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Katie Hafner , The New York Times ;  Once Science Fiction, Gene Editing Is Now a Looming Reality The prospect of erasing some disabilitie...

COVID-19 Fatigue? Don’t Let Your Ethics Guard Down; Esquire, July 28, 2020

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Esquire;  COVID-19 Fatigue? Don’t Let Your Ethics Guard Down " But now is not the time to give in or to cut corners professionally. N...

Study: Only 18% of data science students are learning about AI ethics; TNW, July 3, 2020

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Thomas Macaulay , TNW;  Study: Only 18% of data science students are learning about AI ethics The neglect of AI ethics extends from unive...

15 Ethical Crises In Technology That Have Industry Leaders Concerned; Forbes Technology Council, July 9, 2020

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Forbes Technology Council;  15 Ethical Crises In Technology That Have Industry Leaders Concerned " Growing technologies such as artif...

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John Lewis , The New York Times;  Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation Though I am gone, I urge you to answer the highest cal...

How to Inoculate Your Team Against Conspiracy Theories; Harvard Business Review, July 30, 2020

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Cynthia Wang ,  Jennifer Whitson ,  Tanya Menon ,  Joongseo Kim  and  Brian D. Webster , Harvard Business Review;  How to Inoculate Yo...

This Sandy Hook Father Lives In Hiding Because of Conspiracy Theories Fueled By Alex Jones; Frontline, July 28, 2020

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Frontline;  This Sandy Hook Father Lives In Hiding Because of Conspiracy Theories Fueled By Alex Jones " In 2018, Pozner took [Alex] ...

Does suppressing online conspiracy theorists work? Experts weigh in; The Guardian, July 30, 2020

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Poppy Noor , The Guardian;  Does suppressing online conspiracy theorists work? Experts weigh in " Russell Muirhead, who co-authored t...
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Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. Education: PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences (2007); Juris Doctor (JD), University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences. Member of American Bar Association (ABA), ABA IP Law Section, ABA Science & Technology Section
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