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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…

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

Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies
While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
Todd Blanche, the second-highest official at the DOJ,
rose to prominence as
Trump’s personal defense attorney.
His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement

Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.

I added 3 more pre-order options:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-order-digital-accessibility-ethics.html#CtA
If you have other suggestions, please share so I can update it. I tend to prefer non-Amazon options.
I also linked The S…

Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics”
Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet gathered 36 authors across 10 countries and a commonwealth to write 32 chapters about ethics in digital accessibility. I am one of those 36 authors. The painting on the cover was created by Ana Maria Vidalon, a Spanish-speaking artist with a disability originally…

Vanity Fair is reviewing its ties to Olivia Nuzzi, hired in September, after being "taken by surprise" by an essay that raised new questions about her ethics (Ginia Bellafante/New York Times)

Vanity Fair Is Reviewing Its Ties to Olivia Nuzzi
The magazine, which recently hired the journalist, said it had been “taken by surprise” by new claims in an essay by her former fiancé, Ryan Lizza.

Statement of the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Ethics Regarding Representative Cory Mills (House Committee on Ethics)
https://ethics.house.gov/press-releases/statement-of-the-chairman-and-ranking-member-of-the-committee-on-ethics-regarding-representative-cory-mills-2/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p180#a251119p180

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

"We are rediscovering Pennington because he made a difference during his lifetime. He changed hearts, minds, laws, and social practices through his speeches, sermons, writings, organizing, acts of civil disobedience, tireless movement work—his life in and beyond institutions. Perhaps we can too."
—YDS ethics professor Jennifer Herdt in her new article in Comment magazine, focused on James Pennington '23 M.A.H. and his lifelong struggle with institutions

❌ Ethics
❌ A moral leg to stand on
✅ Most deadly military in the world
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/18/media/trump-mbs-saudi-prince-abc-mary-bruce-oval-office

Analysis: Trump’s anti-press outburst hits differently with a Saudi prince by his side
President Trump frequently demonstrates his disdain for journalists. He expresses his admiration for authoritarians almost as often. Tuesday showed how intertwined those two instincts really are.

Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets — ProPublica #corruption

Top DOJ Official Shut Down Enforcement Against Crypto Companies While Holding More Than $150,000 in Crypto Investments
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, experts told ProPublica.

"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

AAR> Buddhist Art-making and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20132757/aar-paper-buddhist-art-making-and-bodily-ethics-queer-and-trans

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

Ethics Committee Opens Probe Into Rep. Cory Mills After Mace's Censure Push (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/ethics-committee-investigation-cory-mills-after-nancy-mace-censure
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p179#a251119p179

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…

Hey.
Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-order-digital-accessibility-ethics.html
Or wait until it comes out if you have to. I’m not your dad / boss / spaghetti monster.

Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics”
Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet gathered 36 authors across 10 countries and a commonwealth to write 32 chapters about ethics in digital accessibility. I am one of those 36 authors. The painting on the cover was created by Ana Maria Vidalon, a Spanish-speaking artist with a disability originally…

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”.

American Academy of Religion Book Awards
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H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
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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…

My anecdotal observations suggest to me that since El Cheato has returned to the gilt oval office that regard for laws, ethics, and morals has decreased.
I am noticing a lot more minor things, like spam, phishing, speeding, running stop signs, etc. A more scientific study could look at crime rates and such.
My sense is that the trump disregard of law, truth, and morality has infected a lot of people.

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…

This trial would appear to ignore the precautionary principle. The critics, victims of previous irresponsible prescribing, should be taken seriously.
Campaigners question ethics of puberty-blocker trial in legal letter to Streeting - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvg6l5…

Campaigners question ethics of puberty-blocker trial in legal letter to Streeting
Researchers and the UK regulator say the study is going to help improve care for children questioning their gender.

If you ever worry you're doing too much to prevent a #genocide, just suspend your ethics!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

https://resist.bot/petitions/PPPXTK

Congress Must Defend Pipeline Safety Transparency and Ethics Oversight
Text SIGN PPPXTK to 50409 to send this to your officials.

Seems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics

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

Moral rot within journalism makes it hard for ethical practitioners to do their jobs, as they watch successful people in the field displaying malleable ethics (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-elite-journalism-nuzzi-lizz…

Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field
The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.

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

Lawyers who care should run for positions in their respective state bar ethics committees.
We need to hold these people accountable, and make sure they never practice law again.
https://…

60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

AAR> Buddhist Art-making and Bodily Ethics in Queer and Trans Bangkok
https://ift.tt/EvFfbhC
Online Workshop: Technology & Society in Japan and Beyond (Fri: Nov 07, 2025) Susanne Brucksch…
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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…

The Olivia Nuzzi comeback shows everything that is wrong with modern media, where personal branding, access trading, and controversy trump credibility (Colby Hall/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-olivia-nuzzi-comeback-is-everyth…

The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.

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.

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…

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

Hey! @…, Reginé Gilbert, and @… gathered 36 authors to write about ethics in digital accessibility.
Chapters, authors (I’m one of them), pre-order:

To underscore this:
Actively engage with the political process in whatever way suits your ethics, but for the love of god, remember that cynicism and disengagement are tools of the fash https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/115488964353200335

The most perceptive question made in this series of Reith Lectures, "So what is this great moral singularity?", that's a paraphrase.
For which there was no answer except human nature.
I would prefer avoiding the cesspit and condemnation of morality and rather turn to the process of Ethics.
#ReithLectures

Judicial Ethics -- Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove attended an event where Donald Trump spoke. (Joyce Vance/Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance)
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/judicial-ethics
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p16#a251211p16

Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research - poster from Zooniverse community at #FF2025 https://zenodo.org/records/17779992

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

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

In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

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

Damn, y’all, I’d have expected better from a trillion-dollar People Farmer that’s helping Israel commit genocide in Palestine…
Maybe we should talk to their Chief Ethics Officer or something?
#google #gmail #genocide

Gmail AI gets even more intrusive
Gmail doesn't just offer to write your emails for you, they actually do it, and it's up to you to delete the text it wrote. Hard to make a screen shot to demo without revealing personal i…

Did Emil Bove violate judicial ethics code with appearance at Trump rally? (Benjamin S. Weiss/Courthouse News Service)
https://www.courthousenews.com/did-emil-bove-violate-judicial-ethics-code-with-appearance-at-trump-rally/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251210/p144#a251210p144

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…

Great article on the Safety Boss experience in Kuwait and hoe Canadian innovation and ethics made a huge difference.
#CanadianHeroes
https://legionmagazine.com/gulf-war-aftermath/

“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.

Stephen Miller's Stock Sale Raises Questions, Ethics Experts Say (Ana Swanson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/us/politics/stephen-miller-minerals-stake-ethics.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251209/p135#a251209p135

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.
#AmReading

Los jabalíes son víctimas, no culpables: sobre la gestión del brote de peste porcina africana y la necesidad de un enfoque ético y científico
https://www.eldiario.es/caballodenietzsche/jabalies-peste-porcina_132_12829685.html

Los jabalíes son víctimas, no culpables: sobre la gestión del brote de peste porcina africana y la necesidad de un enfoque ético y científico
El consejo científico del UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics (UPF-CAE) -formado por las profesoras e investigadoras Núria Almiron, Paula Casal, Catia Faria, Laura Fernández, Eze Paez y Marta Tafalla- ha enviado al conseller d’Acció Climàtica, Alimentació i Agenda Rural de la Generalitat de Catalunya, ...

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…

My #Philcon schedule:
Fri 9:00 PM
Plaza 2
How Well Would You Survive in Your Favorite Literary World?
Sat 1:00 PM
Plaza 2
The Ethics of Matter Manipulation

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…

In the runup to #COP30, our friends at the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology are co-sponsoring this important event on science, spirituality, and ethics as they pertain to #climatechange.

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

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-…

What is #bbuzz all about?
Our video team captured the essence of #bbuzz on film: #bbuzz by joining us as a speaker! We are looking for talks on search, data science, streams, operations, scale, storage, people and community, society, ethics, sustainability, and more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/call-for-papers/

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

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…

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…

Last month, FASPE and the Center for Public Theology/Public Policy at YDS hosted a day-long clergy symposium on Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism. Videos of the main sessions now available, including this recording of Session 3 https://youtu.be/WgmfW4caDbM?si=g9gVe9G-ihSU6ryt

Senator says FAA administrator failed to sell multimillion-dollar airline stake as promised (Josh Funk/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/faa-administrator-bedford-ethics-republic-airways-stock-5b3185d367f3766fd1be75b3e8762a58
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p141#a251211p141

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

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

I don’t have access to Big Oil’s internal emails about this.
But they sure look wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change.
Oil companies are doing whatever they possibly can to keep the plaintiffs in these suits
(cities, counties, states, and Native American tribes)
from having their day in court
—and as some of the most powerful corporations in the world…

The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That.
Oil companies want the Supreme Court to intervene to dismiss lawsuits about climate change. Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito both have big conflicts of interest on that front.

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 …

Islamic Feminism and Decolonial Futures: Epistemology, Ethics and Praxis
https://ift.tt/xXitQvZ
updated: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 12:03pmfull name / name of organization: Sarojini Naidu…
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"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.

An interview with Olivia Nuzzi about her affair with RFK Jr., her book, and more; Nuzzi says "I did something wrong, like those ethics rules exist for a reason" (Tim Miller/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/olivia-nuzzi-breaks-her-silence

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…

Islamic Feminism and Decolonial Futures: Epistemology, Ethics and Praxis
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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…

Big Law's Big Choice (Paul Rosenzweig/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/big-law-big-choice-trump-settlements-dc-bar-ethics-opinion
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p42#a251104p42

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

Narrating Conflict: Ethics, Identity, and the Stories We Tell
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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

What's worse: "AI", or the people hyper-selling AI and want no consequences?
(OK, that's an easy answer)
#OpenAI #AI #LLM #technology #ethics #society #accountability

Narrating Conflict: Ethics, Identity, and the Stories We Tell
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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 …

National Conference on Interstices, Relationality and Sense-making: Navigating Peace, Ethics and AI in the 21st Century
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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
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p128#a251002p128

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…

International Conference on Interstices, Relationality and Sense-making: Navigating Peace, Ethics and AI in the 21st Century
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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

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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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

American Academy of Religion Book Awards
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H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
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American Academy of Religion Book Awards https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20129793/american-academy-religion-book-awards

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).