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AI Ethics Education in India: A Syllabus-Level Review of Computing Courses
Anshu M Mittal, P D Parthasarathy, Swaroop Joshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22329 https://

AI Ethics Education in India: A Syllabus-Level Review of Computing Courses
The pervasive integration of artificial intelligence (AI) across domains such as healthcare, governance, finance, and education has intensified scrutiny of its ethical implications, including algorithmic bias, privacy risks, accountability, and societal impact. While ethics has received growing attention in computer science (CS) education more broadly, the specific pedagogical treatment of {AI ethics} remains under-examined. This study addresses that gap through a large-scale analysis of 3,395 …

Responsible Diffusion: A Comprehensive Survey on Safety, Ethics, and Trust in Diffusion Models
Kang Wei, Xin Yuan, Fushuo Huo, Chuan Ma, Long Yuan, Songze Li, Ming Ding, Dacheng Tao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22723

Responsible Diffusion: A Comprehensive Survey on Safety, Ethics, and Trust in Diffusion Models
Diffusion models (DMs) have been investigated in various domains due to their ability to generate high-quality data, thereby attracting significant attention. However, similar to traditional deep learning systems, there also exist potential threats to DMs. To provide advanced and comprehensive insights into safety, ethics, and trust in DMs, this survey comprehensively elucidates its framework, threats, and countermeasures. Each threat and its countermeasures are systematically examined and cate…

Federal agencies are told to blame Democrats for a shutdown : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5558393/government-shutdown-trump-ethics-hatch-act

Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5558393/government-shutdown-trump-ethics-hatch-act
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p146#a250930p146

A high profile conservation membership organisation has just announced their next conference location is in Dubai.
Nope!
To make it worse, they are kicking off a review of their ethical framework at that conference.
I can't even!
#Conservation
#Ethics

"inadvertent error"
Just like Angela Raynor then?
Starmer rules out investigation after Reeves admits rental rules 'mistake' - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd04d0yxnrvo

Chancellor Rachel Reeves admits breaking housing rules by renting out home
Rachel Reeves refers herself to the PM's ethics adviser after "inadvertently" renting out her family home without a licence.

Today, using #GAFAM software is no longer a matter of needs or preferences. Today, it is a choice in the domain of ethics.
If someone gives me their personal data, be it their contact data, image, or anything else, it is my solemn duty to keep that data secure. If I give it away to an app that uses it for marketing purposes, to train models, to manipulate people, or simply sells it, I fail that trust.
So don't give apps unnecessary permissions, or simply don't use such apps. And if the whole system abuses your data — well, if you can't change it, there are always notebooks and pens, you know.
#FreeSoftware

Open Opportunities in AI Safety, Alignment, and Ethics (AI SAE)
Dylan Waldner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24065 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24065

Open Opportunities in AI Safety, Alignment, and Ethics (AI SAE)
AI safety research has emphasized interpretability, control, and robustness, yet without an ethical substrate these approaches may remain fragile under competitive and open-ended pressures. This paper explores ethics not as an external add-on, but as a possible structural lens for alignment, introducing a \emph{moral problem space} $M$: a high-dimensional domain in which moral distinctions could, in principle, be represented in AI systems. Human moral reasoning is treated as a compressed and su…

Brady defends ethics against 'distrust' over roles https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46366003/tom-brady-defends-ethics-distrust-raiders-fox-roles

CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking
Pablo Pueyo, Fernando Caballero, Ana Cristina Murillo, Eduardo Montijano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24921

CineWild: Balancing Art and Robotics for Ethical Wildlife Documentary Filmmaking
Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), have become powerful tools across domains-from industry to the arts. In documentary filmmaking, they offer dynamic, otherwise unreachable perspectives, transforming how stories are told. Wildlife documentaries especially benefit, yet drones also raise ethical concerns: the risk of disturbing the animals they aim to capture. This paper introduces CineWild, an autonomous UAV framework that combines robotics, cinematography, and ethics. Built on model pr…

Crosslisted article(s) found for eess.SY. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.SY/new
[1/2]:
- Trust and Transparency in AI: Industry Voices on Data, Ethics, and Compliance
Louise McCormack, Diletta Huyskes, Dave Lewis, Malika Bendechache

"The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of course, all fine."
Sythetic data using "AI" is such a toxic pattern that keeps being amplified (because of the structures that guide "science")
(Original title: Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!)

Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!
Medical research means dealing with ethics boards — who keep asking all these pointed questions on how you’re going to use people’s most personal data. What if we just … fake the data? Sorry,…

“Ethical safeguards”!? As if Elsevier knew anything about ethics. I’ve never published with Elsevier, nor will I, I’m not reviewing for you, and I’m most certainly not interested in your !@#$% spam.
The #BigPub cartels can go f✪ck themselves.

“Ethical safeguards”!? As if Elsevier knew anything about ethics. I’ve never published with Elsevier, nor will I, I’m not reviewing for you, and I’m most certainly not interested in your !@#$% spam.
The #BigPub cartels can go f✪ck themselves.

Thirteen newsroom leaders and ethicists discuss elements of journalistic ethics, including dealing with AI, anonymous leaks, bias, lies, and audience needs (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/thirteen-journ

Thirteen Journalists on How They Are Rethinking Ethics 
We asked newsroom leaders and ethicists what they’re keeping or changing in an era of Trump, “fake news,” AI, and industry decline.

Teaching students from both fields, linguistics and engineering—separately, no shared courses—I witness two kinds of growing resistance towards the use of #GenAI:
- low quality output needs too much effort to fix manually
- low quality output is not worth the high amounts of energy it costs
Future linguists argue with efficiency, future engineers with resources. Ethics comes muc…

You're a "AI Ethics Engineer"?
Cool, I'm a Gasoline Sommelier

The history of digital ethics
Vincent C. M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16616 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16616

The history of digital ethics
Digital ethics, also known as computer ethics or information ethics, is now a lively field that draws a lot of attention, but how did it come about and what were the developments that lead to its existence? What are the traditions, the concerns, the technological and social developments that pushed digital ethics? How did ethical issues change with digitalisation of human life? How did the traditional discipline of philosophy respond? The article provides an overview, proposing historical epoch…

CFP: Special issue on Israel/Palestine in the Journal of Jewish Ethics
https://ift.tt/N30eCxn
Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
via Input 4 RELCFP

Watchdog Calls for IG Ethics Probe of Border Czar Tom Homan — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/border-czar-tom-homan-mark-hall-conflicts-interest-ethics-investigation

The Hippocratic License was just brought to my attention: #opensource #ethics

Seeing like Meta: Smart glasses and the ethics of augmented reality #AR

Seeing like Meta: Smart glasses and the ethics of augmented reality - ABC Religion & Ethics
Meta’s smart glasses are not just another consumer gadget; they are a step toward enclosing perception itself within a private platform — and when the interface is your glasses, there is no “outside”.

The New York City mayor's race is an ethics test (Jill Lawrence/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-new-york-city-mayors-race-is
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p117#a251028p117

"How AI is Transforming Peer Review" https://blog.scienceopen.com/2025/08/how-ai-is-transforming-peer-review/

Empirical AI Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethics towards a Situated, Plural, and Transformative Approach
Paula Helm, Selin Gerlek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17727 https://

Empirical AI Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethics towards a Situated, Plural, and Transformative Approach
Mainstream AI ethics, with its reliance on top-down, principle-driven frameworks, fails to account for the situated realities of diverse communities affected by AI (Artificial Intelligence). Critics have argued that AI ethics frequently serves corporate interests through practices of 'ethics washing', operating more as a tool for public relations than as a means of preventing harm or advancing the common good. As a result, growing scepticism among critical scholars has cast the field as complic…

The User-first Approach to AI Ethics: Preferences for Ethical Principles in AI Systems across Cultures and Contexts
Benjamin J. Carroll, Jianlong Zhou, Paul F. Burke, Sabine Ammon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11327

The User-first Approach to AI Ethics: Preferences for Ethical Principles in AI Systems across Cultures and Contexts
As AI systems increasingly permeate everyday life, designers and developers face mounting pressure to balance innovation with ethical design choices. To date, the operationalisation of AI ethics has predominantly depended on frameworks that prescribe which ethical principles should be embedded within AI systems. However, the extent to which users value these principles remains largely unexplored in the existing literature. In a discrete choice experiment conducted in four countries, we quantify…

Day 29: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
I've been sitting on Simpson for a while because there's some overlap in her writing with Robin Wall Kimmerer, and I've had a lot of different genres/styles/subjects/media I've wanted to post at least one author from. But I've now hit repeats on at least YA romance and manga, and Simpson's writing is actually quite different from Kimmerer's in a lot of ways. While Kimmerer is a biologist by training and literally braids that knowledge together with her knowledge of Potawatomi cosmology and ethics, Simpson is an Anishinaabe philosopher and anarchist, and her position as a scholar of Indigenous philosophy adds a different depth to her work: she talks in more depth about knowledge relationships and her connections with specific elders, and she has more citations to other Indigenous theorists, which is the one criticism I've ever seen of Kimmerer's work. Rather than being Indigenous and a scientist, she's Indigenous and a scholar of indigenous studies.
I've only read "Theory of Water" by Simpson, but it was excellent, and especially inspiring to read as an anarchist. Simpson's explicit politics are another difference from Kimmerer's work, which is more implicitly than explicitly political. This allows Simpson to draw extremely interesting connections to other anarchist theorists and movements. "Theory of Water" is probably a bit less accessible than "Braiding Sweetgrass," but it's richer from a theory perspective as a result.
In any case, Simpson is a magnificent writer, sharing personal insights and stories along with (and inseparable from) her theoretical ideas.
#30AuthorsNoMen

I hope he opens the show with even more Charlie Kirk talk
https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115249827832642044

Mind the Ethics! The Overlooked Ethical Dimensions of GenAI in Software Modeling Education
Shalini Chakraborty, Lola Burgue\~no, Nathalie Moreno, Javier Troya, Paula Mu\~noz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13896

Mind the Ethics! The Overlooked Ethical Dimensions of GenAI in Software Modeling Education
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly gaining momentum in software modeling education, embraced by both students and educators. As GenAI assists with interpreting requirements, formalizing models, and translating students' mental models into structured notations, it increasingly shapes core learning outcomes such as domain comprehension, diagrammatic thinking, and modeling fluency without clear ethical oversight or pedagogical guidelines. Yet, the ethical implications of this in…

Western countries can watch this genocide unfold without lifting a finger. That is their prerogative. But what they cannot do – what they will never again be able to do – is to pretend that they give a damn about human rights or democracy or international law. What they cannot do is claim to be civilised.
If you cannot or will not stop genocide, you are not a civilised society.
You cannot lecture anyone on ethics or morals or values. You are barbarians who have accepted the law o…

Palestinians march south as Israel ethnically cleanses Gaza City
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza’s north are making the journey south in a mass exodus with no guarantee of safety.

Ethics Watchdog Group Seeks Investigation Into Border Czar and Contracts Following ProPublica Report (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/border-czar-tom-homan-mark-hall-conflicts-interest-ethics-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p155#a251021p155

The phrase "LOWERING STANDARDS" along with "bypassing ethics" & "promoting injustice" are phrases that encapsulate everything Fat Nixon does.


#trump #fbi
From: @…

F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents
The plan appears to be part of a broader effort to shift the agency’s focus from tracking national security threats to fighting crime. The Trump administration is preparing to lower the recruitment standards for F.B.I. agents, eliciting alarm from many agents who worry that the move will undermine …

CFP: Special issue on Israel/Palestine in the Journal of Jewish Ethics
https://ift.tt/YWD9brP
Summer 2026 Vietnamese Language Study with Indiana University Kathleen Evans 09/19/2025 - 9:31am …
via Input 4 RELCFP

Chatbot Cheating in Ethics Class - Christianity Today
https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/chatbot-cheating-ethics-class-chatgpt-college-virtue/

So this got me thinking:
Starter primers:
Andor: Leftism/resistance
Barbie: Feminism
Matrix: Philosophy
Good Place: Ethics/Moral Philosophy
Sesame Street: Coexistence
Mr. Rogers: Empathy
Gillian’s Island: Capitalist Theory
https://youtu.be/rsRjQDrDnY8

Important clergy symposium hosted by FASPE and the Center for Public Theology & Public Policy. November 10 at YDS. https://www.theologyandpolicy.yale.edu/blog/public-theology-in-a-time-of-authoritarianism-a-clergy-symposium

Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism: A Clergy Symposium — Center for Public Theology & Public Policy
Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism is presented in partnership with Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics . The program will explore ethical possibilities of religion in today’s world, amidst politicization of religious communities, the deepening of moral and cul

Generative AI is slowly transforming digital curation, so we've integrated lessons on its technology, ethics, and techniques into our online graduate certificate at https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu.
Here's a related job as a Critical Artificial Intelligence Librarian at Dartmouth…

Should the Neuralink Blindsight Informed Consent Form for a brain implant mention noninvasive alternatives such as The vOICe vision BCI? #BCI #ethics #NeuroEthics

John Oliver on The Ethics of Comedy, The Dalai Lama & Impacting Monica by Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR-KTECQGxQ

The Agent Behavior: Model, Governance and Challenges in the AI Digital Age
Qiang Zhang, Pei Yan, Yijia Xu, Chuanpo Fu, Yong Fang, Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14415 https…

The Agent Behavior: Model, Governance and Challenges in the AI Digital Age
Advancements in AI have led to agents in networked environments increasingly mirroring human behavior, thereby blurring the boundary between artificial and human actors in specific contexts. This shift brings about significant challenges in trust, responsibility, ethics, security and etc. The difficulty in supervising of agent behaviors may lead to issues such as data contamination and unclear accountability. To address these challenges, this paper proposes the "Network Behavior Lifecycle" mode…

A Guide to Stakeholder Analysis for Cybersecurity Researchers
James C Davis, Sophie Chen, Huiyun Peng, Paschal C Amusuo, Kelechi G Kalu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14796 https://…

A Guide to Stakeholder Analysis for Cybersecurity Researchers
Stakeholder-based ethics analysis is now a formal requirement for submissions to top cybersecurity research venues. This requirement reflects a growing consensus that cybersecurity researchers must go beyond providing capabilities to anticipating and mitigating the potential harms thereof. However, many cybersecurity researchers may be uncertain about how to proceed in an ethics analysis. In this guide, we provide practical support for that requirement by enumerating stakeholder types and mappi…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GL/new
[1/1]:
- The history of digital ethics
Vincent C. M\"uller
https://

Measuring What Matters: Connecting AI Ethics Evaluations to System Attributes, Hazards, and Harms
Shalaleh Rismani, Renee Shelby, Leah Davis, Negar Rostamzadeh, AJung Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10339

Measuring What Matters: Connecting AI Ethics Evaluations to System Attributes, Hazards, and Harms
Over the past decade, an ecosystem of measures has emerged to evaluate the social and ethical implications of AI systems, largely shaped by high-level ethics principles. These measures are developed and used in fragmented ways, without adequate attention to how they are situated in AI systems. In this paper, we examine how existing measures used in the computing literature map to AI system components, attributes, hazards, and harms. Our analysis draws on a scoping review resulting in nearly 800…

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Vincent C. M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16658 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16658…

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a digital technology that will be of major importance for the development of humanity in the near future. AI has raised fundamental questions about what we should do with such systems, what the systems themselves should do, what risks they involve and how we can control these. - After the background to the field (1), this article introduces the main debates (2), first on ethical issues that arise with AI systems as objects, i.e. tools made and used by humans; her…

Small town Canadian newspapers at risk from anti-democratic Carpenter Media ownership group
Dear Editor, I am deeply concerned that the new American owner of this newspaper, Carpenter Media, has crossed a bright red line in journalism ethics that calls into question the independence and integrity of every newspaper they now own. As reported in the The Tyee on October 6th, "Reporters and editors at the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion announced their resignations Sept…
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/3Zw

Der US-Senat hat Neil Jacobs als neuen Leiter der #NOAA trotz früherer ethischer Verstöße bestätigt.
Damals hatte er unter politischem Druck eine kritische Stellungnahme gegen #Wetterprognosen veröffentlicht, um Aussagen von Präsident Trump zu stützen.
Jacobs kündigte an, künftig a…

Senate Confirms Neil Jacobs, ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist, to Lead NOAA
Neil Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map in 2019.

CFP: Special issue on Israel/Palestine in the Journal of Jewish Ethics
https://ift.tt/HQfrxYL
TOC The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, vol 18, 5 (2017) …
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen

"Wausua Mayor Doug Diny, who stole the city's ballot drop box was found to have violated the city's ethics policy, but got less than a slap on the wrist."
Drop Box Stealing Mayor Found To Have Violated Ethics Policy | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/10/drop-box-stealing-mayor-found-have

Need to talk to your students about AI ethics this fall? I've uploaded a course module for the AI IMPACT RISK framework, with interactive website, video, infographics, and quiz, that you can import into your own courseware
This imscc file can be imported directly into Canvas/Brightspace/Blackboard, or you can cherrypick resources directly from the IMPACT RISK website. Also new: SVG versions of all graphics

Affective Computing and Emotional Data: Challenges and Implications in Privacy Regulations, The AI Act, and Ethics in Large Language Models
Nicola Fabiano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20153

Affective Computing and Emotional Data: Challenges and Implications in Privacy Regulations, The AI Act, and Ethics in Large Language Models
This paper examines the integration of emotional intelligence into artificial intelligence systems, with a focus on affective computing and the growing capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT and Claude, to recognize and respond to human emotions. Drawing on interdisciplinary research that combines computer science, psychology, and neuroscience, the study analyzes foundational neural architectures - CNNs for processing facial expressions and RNNs for sequential data, such …

TIL that Microsoft Copilot is now trying to show a "face" with different "emotions". That it's not working right now is not my issue. That MS are even more explicitly trying to trick people into thinking they are having a conversation with an actual person, however, most definitely *is*.
Did this "feature" run through an ethics board review? Is the additional emotional deception of users intentional? Who actually wants that sh..?
I am getting ha…

Tom Warren (@tomwarren.co.uk)
I finally got access to the Copilot Appearance feature and Microsoft's AI assistant really doesn't wanna show off its facial expressions

[Extended] Ethics in Computer Security Research: A Data-Driven Assessment of the Past, the Present, and the Possible Future
Harshini Sri Ramulu, Helen Schmitt, Bogdan Rerich, Rachel Gonzalez Rodriguez, Tadayoshi Kohno, Yasemin Acar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09351

[Extended] Ethics in Computer Security Research: A Data-Driven Assessment of the Past, the Present, and the Possible Future
Ethical questions are discussed regularly in computer security. Still, researchers in computer security lack clear guidance on how to make, document, and assess ethical decisions in research when what is morally right or acceptable is not clear-cut. In this work, we give an overview of the discussion of ethical implications in current published work in computer security by reviewing all 1154 top-tier security papers published in 2024, finding inconsistent levels of ethics reporting with a stron…

i guess i have skills

Rule-Based Moral Principles for Explaining Uncertainty in Natural Language Generation
Zahra Atf, Peter R Lewis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07190 https://arx…

Rule-Based Moral Principles for Explaining Uncertainty in Natural Language Generation
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in high-stakes settings, where explaining uncertainty is both technical and ethical. Probabilistic methods are often opaque and misaligned with expectations of transparency. We propose a framework based on rule-based moral principles for handling uncertainty in LLM-generated text. Using insights from moral psychology and virtue ethics, we define rules such as precaution, deference, and responsibility to guide responses under epistemic or aleato…

"Artificial Intelligence Through the Lens of the Cataloguing Code of Ethics" #AI

Exclusive: Trump official bypassed ethics rules in criminal referrals of Fed governor and other foes, sources say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-official-bypassed-ethics-rules-criminal-referrals-fed-governor-other-foes-2025-10-06/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p160#a251006p160

Making Power Explicable in AI: Analyzing, Understanding, and Redirecting Power to Operationalize Ethics in AI Technical Practice
Weina Jin, Elise Li Zheng, Ghassan Hamarneh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10588

Making Power Explicable in AI: Analyzing, Understanding, and Redirecting Power to Operationalize Ethics in AI Technical Practice
The operationalization of ethics in the technical practices of artificial intelligence (AI) is facing significant challenges. To address the problem of ineffective implementation of AI ethics, we present our diagnosis, analysis, and interventional recommendations from a unique perspective of the real-world implementation of AI ethics through explainable AI (XAI) techniques. We first describe the phenomenon (i.e., the "symptoms") of ineffective implementation of AI ethics in explainable AI using…

I tried some of the scarier prompts from reddit on the new model and it shut them down straight away. It didn't agree with me or encourage me to keep going.
I don't trust OpenAI as far as I can throw them on ethics but this will probably turn out to be one of their more socially-responsible moves.

Many mainstream media reporters no longer seem to have the morality or incentive to check sources, verify stories or offer retractions when they screw up.
For reporters in nearly every field, Clicks & Scoop > Accuracy & Ethics
😢
From: @…

The Ethical and Sustainable Concerns Triangle: A Framework for Navigating Discourses in Mathematics and Its Education
Dennis M\"uller, Maurice Chiodo, Michael Meyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11327

The Ethical and Sustainable Concerns Triangle: A Framework for Navigating Discourses in Mathematics and Its Education
The literature on ethics and sustainability in mathematics and its education is increasingly complex and fragmented, potentially leading to communication breakdowns between different scholarly traditions. To address this, the paper introduces the "Ethical and Sustainable Concerns Triangle," a framework that maps discourses based on their relative concern for three areas (represented as three vertices in the triangle): "Mathematics", "Community", and "Society/Planet". By integrating a systems th…

How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/health/drug-trials-ethics-ozempic.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p70#a251004p70

Knowledge Isn't Power: The Ethics of Social Robots and the Difficulty of Informed Consent
James M. Berzuk, Lauren Corcoran, Brannen McKenzie-Lefurgey, Katie Szilagyi, James E. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07942

Knowledge Isn't Power: The Ethics of Social Robots and the Difficulty of Informed Consent
Contemporary robots are increasingly mimicking human social behaviours to facilitate interaction, such as smiling to signal approachability, or hesitating before taking an action to allow people time to react. Such techniques can activate a person's entrenched social instincts, triggering emotional responses as though they are interacting with a fellow human, and can prompt them to treat a robot as if it truly possesses the underlying life-like processes it outwardly presents, raising significa…

Technical specification of a framework for the collection of clinical images and data
Alistair Mackenzie (Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, UK), Mark Halling-Brown (Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, UK), Ruben van Engen (Dutch Expert Centre for Screening), Carlijn Roozemond (Dutch Expert Centre for Screening), Lucy Warren (Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, UK), Dominic Ward (Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford, UK), Nadia Smith (Royal Surrey…

Technical specification of a framework for the collection of clinical images and data
In this report a framework for the collection of clinical images and data for use when training and validating artificial intelligence (AI) tools is described. The report contains not only information about the collection of the images and clinical data, but the ethics and information governance processes to consider ensuring the data is collected safely, and the infrastructure and agreements required to allow for the sharing of data with other groups. A key characteristic of the main collect…

Louise Haigh, Angela Rayner: which (somewhat left) woman will the tabloids go for next? Probably Bridget Phillipson
Meanwhile Nigel Garage (thank you spellchecker) gets a free pass.

‘I take full responsibility’: Angela Rayner’s resignation letter in full | Angela Rayner | The Guardian
https:…

ACLA 2026: Renegotiating Ethics in Literature and Film #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/09/acla-2026-renegotiating-ethi…

The Ethics Engine: A Modular Pipeline for Accessible Psychometric Assessment of Large Language Models
Jake Van Clief, Constantine Kyritsopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11742 …

The Ethics Engine: A Modular Pipeline for Accessible Psychometric Assessment of Large Language Models
As Large Language Models increasingly mediate human communication and decision-making, understanding their value expression becomes critical for research across disciplines. This work presents the Ethics Engine, a modular Python pipeline that transforms psychometric assessment of LLMs from a technically complex endeavor into an accessible research tool. The pipeline demonstrates how thoughtful infrastructure design can expand participation in AI research, enabling investigators across cognitive…

Just finished "Beasts Made of Night" by Tochi Onyebuchi...
Indirect CW for fantasy police state violence.
So I very much enjoyed Onyebuchi's "Riot Baby," and when I grabbed this at the library, I was certain it would be excellent. But having finished it, I'm not sure I like it that much overall?
The first maybe third is excellent, including the world-building, which is fascinating. I feel like Onyebuchi must have played "Shadow of the Colossus" at some point. Onyebuchi certainly does know how to make me care for his characters.
Some spoilers from here on out...
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I felt like it stumbles towards the middle, with Bo's reactions neither making sense in the immediate context, nor in retrospect by the end when we've learned more. Things are a bit floaty in the middle with an unclear picture of what exactly is going on politics-wise and what the motivations are. Here I think there were some nuances that didn't make it to the page, or perhaps I'm just a bit thick and not getting stuff I should be? More is of course revealed by the end, but I still wasn't satisfied with the explanations of things. For example, (spoilers) I don't feel I understand clearly what kind of power the army of aki was supposed to represent within the city? Perhaps necessary to wield the threat of offensive inisisia use? In that case, a single scene somewhere of Izu's faction deploying that tactic would have been helpful I think.
Then towards the end, for me things really started to jumble, with unclear motivations, revelations that didn't feel well-paced or -structured, and a finale where both the action & collapsing concerns felt stilted and disjointed. Particularly the mechanics/ethics of the most important death that set the finale in motion bothered me, and the unexplained mechanism by which that led to what came next? I can read a couple of possible interesting morals into the whole denouement, but didn't feel that any of them were sufficiently explored. Especially if we're supposed to see some personal failing in the protagonist's actions, I don't think it's made clear enough what that is, since I feel his reasons to reject each faction are pretty solid, and if we're meant to either pity or abjure his indecision, I don't think the message lands clearly enough.
There *is* a sequel, which honestly I wasn't sure of after the last page, and which I now very interested in. Beasts is Onyebuchi's debut, which maybe makes sense of me feeling that Riot Baby didn't have the same plotting issues. It also maybe means that Onyebuchi couldn't be sure a sequel would make it to publication in terms of setting up the ending.
Overall I really enjoyed at least 80% of this, but was expecting even better (especially politically) given Onyebuchi's other work, and I didn't feel like I found it.
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AI as IA: The use and abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) for human enhancement through intellectual augmentation (IA)
Alexandre Erler, Vincent C. M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16642

AI as IA: The use and abuse of artificial intelligence (AI) for human enhancement through intellectual augmentation (IA)
This paper offers an overview of the prospects and ethics of using AI to achieve human enhancement, and more broadly what we call intellectual augmentation (IA). After explaining the central notions of human enhancement, IA, and AI, we discuss the state of the art in terms of the main technologies for IA, with or without brain-computer interfaces. Given this picture, we discuss potential ethical problems, namely inadequate performance, safety, coercion and manipulation, privacy, cognitive liber…

American Academy of Religion Book Awards
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Going over Fine Web with a Fine-Tooth Comb: Technical Report of Indexing Fine Web for Problematic Content Search and Retrieval
In\'es Altemir Marinas, Anastasiia Kucherenko, Andrei Kucharavy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21788

Going over Fine Web with a Fine-Tooth Comb: Technical Report of Indexing Fine Web for Problematic Content Search and Retrieval
Large language models (LLMs) rely heavily on web-scale datasets like Common Crawl, which provides over 80\% of training data for some modern models. However, the indiscriminate nature of web crawling raises challenges in data quality, safety, and ethics. Despite the critical importance of training data quality, prior research on harmful content has been limited to small samples due to computational constraints. This project presents a framework for indexing and analyzing LLM training datasets u…

The revolting, media-assisted tax on the mathematically-challenged rears its ugly head again.
Compelling the lower class to make the nation's biggest sucker bets with "it's fun!" & "if you don't play, you can't win" are an obnoxious compromise of ethics.
#powerball

Developer Insights into Designing AI-Based Computer Perception Tools
Maya Guhan (Center for Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA), Meghan E. Hurley (Center for Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA), Eric A. Storch (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA), John Herrington (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Children's Hospita…

Developer Insights into Designing AI-Based Computer Perception Tools
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer perception (CP) technologies use mobile sensors to collect behavioral and physiological data for clinical decision-making. These tools can reshape how clinical knowledge is generated and interpreted. However, effective integration of these tools into clinical workflows depends on how developers balance clinical utility with user acceptability and trustworthiness. Our study presents findings from 20 in-depth interviews with developers of AI-based CP to…

Ethics Statements in AI Music Papers: The Effective and the Ineffective
Julia Barnett, Patrick O'Reilly, Jason Brent Smith, Annie Chu, Bryan Pardo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25496

Ethics Statements in AI Music Papers: The Effective and the Ineffective
While research in AI methods for music generation and analysis has grown in scope and impact, AI researchers' engagement with the ethical consequences of this work has not kept pace. To encourage such engagement, many publication venues have introduced optional or required ethics statements for AI research papers. Though some authors use these ethics statements to critically engage with the broader implications of their research, we find that the majority of ethics statements in the AI music li…

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An Anthropologist LLM to Elicit Users' Moral Preferences through Role-Play
Gianluca De Ninno, Paola Inverardi, Francesca Belotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01189 https://

An Anthropologist LLM to Elicit Users' Moral Preferences through Role-Play
This study investigates a novel approach to eliciting users' moral decision-making by combining immersive roleplaying games with LLM analysis capabilities. Building on the distinction introduced by Floridi between hard ethics inspiring and shaping laws-and soft ethics-moral preferences guiding individual behavior within the free space of decisions compliant to laws-we focus on capturing the latter through contextrich, narrative-driven interactions. Grounded in anthropological methods, the role-…

We Need a New Ethics for a World of AI Agents
Iason Gabriel, Geoff Keeling, Arianna Manzini, James Evans
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10289 https://arxiv.org…

We Need a New Ethics for a World of AI Agents
The deployment of capable AI agents raises fresh questions about safety, human-machine relationships and social coordination. We argue for greater engagement by scientists, scholars, engineers and policymakers with the implications of a world increasingly populated by AI agents. We explore key challenges that must be addressed to ensure that interactions between humans and agents, and among agents themselves, remain broadly beneficial.

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- Advances in LLMs with Focus on Reasoning, Adaptability, Efficiency and Ethics
Khan, Khan, Jamshed, Ahmad, Zainab, Khatib, Bibi, Rehman

Watchdog group alleges White House, agencies violating ethics law (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/government-shutdown-trump-federal-jobs-furloughed-live-updates-rcna234263/rcrd89851?canonicalCard=true
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Demystifying and Navigating AI Ethics in Power Electronics
Fanfan Lin, Peter Wilson, Xinze Li, Alan Mantooth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09439 https://arxiv…

Demystifying and Navigating AI Ethics in Power Electronics
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming power electronics, with AI-related publications in IEEE Power Electronics Society selected journals increasing more than fourfold from 2020 to 2025. However, the ethical dimensions of this transformation have received limited attention. This article underscores the urgent need for an ethical framework to guide responsible AI integration in power electronics, not only to prevent AI-related incidents but also to comply with legal and regulatory…

A Meat-Summer Night's Dream: A Tangible Design Fiction Exploration of Eating Biohybrid Flying Robots
Ziming Wang, Yiqian Wu, Qingxiao Zheng, Shihan Zhang, Ned Barker, Morten Fjeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06507

A Meat-Summer Night's Dream: A Tangible Design Fiction Exploration of Eating Biohybrid Flying Robots
What if future dining involved eating robots? We explore this question through a playful and poetic experiential dinner theater: a tangible design fiction staged as a 2052 Paris restaurant where diners consume a biohybrid flying robot in place of the banned delicacy of ortolan bunting. Moving beyond textual or visual speculation, our ``dinner-in-the-drama'' combined performance, ritual, and multisensory immersion to provoke reflection on sustainability, ethics, and cultural identity. Six partic…

AI Governance in Higher Education: A course design exploring regulatory, ethical and practical considerations
Zsolt Alm\'asi (P\'azm\'any P\'eter Catholic University, Hungary), Hannah Bleher (University of Bonn, Germany), Johannes Bleher (University of Hohenheim, Germany), Rozanne Tuesday Flores (Bukidnon State University, Philippines), Guo Xuanyang (Southwest University of Political Science and Law, China), Pawe{\l} Pujszo (College of Europe, Natolin, Poland), Rapha\&q…

AI Governance in Higher Education: A course design exploring regulatory, ethical and practical considerations
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems permeate critical sectors, the need for professionals who can address ethical, legal and governance challenges has become urgent. Current AI ethics education remains fragmented, often siloed by discipline and disconnected from practice. This paper synthesizes literature and regulatory developments to propose a modular, interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates technical foundations with ethics, law and policy. We highlight recurring operational failure…

Islamic Feminism and Decolonial Futures: Epistemology, Ethics and Praxis
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Towards a Manifesto for Cyber Humanities: Paradigms, Ethics, and Prospects
Giovanni Adorni, Emanuele Bellini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02760 https://arxiv…

Towards a Manifesto for Cyber Humanities: Paradigms, Ethics, and Prospects
The accelerated evolution of digital infrastructures and algorithmic systems is reshaping how the humanities engage with knowledge and culture. Rooted in the traditions of Digital Humanities and Digital Humanism, the concept of "Cyber Humanities" proposes a critical reconfiguration of humanistic inquiry for the post-digital era. This Manifesto introduces a flexible framework that integrates ethical design, sustainable digital practices, and participatory knowledge systems grounded in human-cent…

Islamic Feminism and Decolonial Futures: Epistemology, Ethics and Praxis
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A Study on the Framework for Evaluating the Ethics and Trustworthiness of Generative AI
Cheonsu Jeong, Seunghyun Lee, Sunny Jeong, Sungsu Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00398 ht…

A Study on the Framework for Evaluating the Ethics and Trustworthiness of Generative AI
This study provides an in_depth analysis of the ethical and trustworthiness challenges emerging alongside the rapid advancement of generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and proposes a comprehensive framework for their systematic evaluation. While generative AI, such as ChatGPT, demonstrates remarkable innovative potential, it simultaneously raises ethical and social concerns, including bias, harmfulness, copyright infringement, privacy violations, and hallucination. Current AI ev…

AI Wellbeing
Simon Goldstein, Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11913 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11913

AI Wellbeing
Under what conditions would an artificially intelligent system have wellbeing? Despite its obvious bearing on the ethics of human interactions with artificial systems, this question has received little attention. Because all major theories of wellbeing hold that an individual's welfare level is partially determined by their mental life, we begin by considering whether artificial systems have mental states. We show that a wide range of theories of mental states, when combined with leading theori…

Breaking the mould of Social Mixed Reality -- State-of-the-Art and Glossary
Marta Bie\'nkiewicz, Julia Ayache, Panayiotis Charalambous, Cristina Becchio, Marco Corragio, Bertram Taetz, Francesco De Lellis, Antonio Grotta, Anna Server, Daniel Rammer, Richard Kulpa, Franck Multon, Azucena Garcia-Palacios, Jessica Sutherland, Kathleen Bryson, St\'ephane Donikian, Didier Stricker, Beno\^it Bardy

Breaking the mould of Social Mixed Reality -- State-of-the-Art and Glossary
This article explores a critical gap in Mixed Reality (MR) technology: while advances have been made, MR still struggles to authentically replicate human embodiment and socio-motor interaction. For MR to enable truly meaningful social experiences, it needs to incorporate multi-modal data streams and multi-agent interaction capabilities. To address this challenge, we present a comprehensive glossary covering key topics such as Virtual Characters and Autonomisation, Responsible AI, Ethics by Desi…

ACLA 2026: Renegotiating Ethics in Literature and Film
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Normative Moral Pluralism for AI: A Framework for Deliberation in Complex Moral Contexts
David-Doron Yaacov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08333 https://arxiv.…

Normative Moral Pluralism for AI: A Framework for Deliberation in Complex Moral Contexts
The conceptual framework proposed in this paper centers on the development of a deliberative moral reasoning system - one designed to process complex moral situations by generating, filtering, and weighing normative arguments drawn from diverse ethical perspectives. While the framework is rooted in Machine Ethics, it also makes a substantive contribution to Value Alignment by outlining a system architecture that links structured moral reasoning to action under time constraints. Grounded in norm…

ACLA2026: W[h]ither Identity?: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Unselving
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A New Digital Divide? Coder Worldviews, the Slop Economy, and Democracy in the Age of AI
Jason Miklian, Kristian Hoelscher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04755 https://

A New Digital Divide? Coder Worldviews, the Slop Economy, and Democracy in the Age of AI
Digital technologies are transforming democratic life in conflicting ways. This article bridges two perspectives to unpack these tensions. First, we present an original survey of software developers in Silicon Valley, interrogating how coder worldviews, ethics, and workplace cultures shape the democratic potential and social impact of the technologies they build. Results indicate that while most developers recognize the power of their products to influence civil liberties and political discours…

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- A Study on the Framework for Evaluating the Ethics and Trustworthiness of Generative AI
Cheonsu Jeong, Seunghyun Lee, Seonhee Jeong, Sungsu Kim

2026 Annual Meeting Call for Papers #ACREL #AMREL #SBLAAR #AARSBL - The May meeting represents a collaboration…

2026 NABPR Annual Meeting Call for Papers
The National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion (NABPR) invites paper and panel proposals in any area pertaining to Religion, Biblical Studies, Christian History, Theology, Ethics, Ministry Studies, Pedagogy, Religion and Faith in Higher Education, and other related areas. The May meeting represents a collaboration between NABPR, Association of Ministry Guidance Professionals (AMGP), and Baptist History & Heritage Society (BHHS).