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Q&A with Hugging Face Chief Ethics Scientist Margaret Mitchell on aligning AI development with human needs, the "illusion of consensus" around AGI, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7089bff2-25fc-4a25-98bf-8828ab24…

How the hell is it Biden's fault? It is up to congress to make the laws.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/government-ethics-norms-trump-biden-analysis

The Ethics of Generative AI in Anonymous Spaces: A Case Study of 4chan's /pol/ Board
Parth Gaba, Emiliano De Cristofaro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14191

I'm reading Catastrope Ethics by Travis Rieder. This passage drives home why we need to question how politicians talk so promisingly about negative-emissions tech that sucks CO2 from the air:

"The other category of negative-emissions technology avoids at least the land-use problem and is popular among the more techno-optimistic, as it does something that sounds borderline magical: it sucks CO, directly from the air and returns it to the ground. There's only one problem, wh…

Companies like Amazon, Google , Microsoft, Apple are incompatible with the kind of democracies and states I like to live in. They are too large and powerful, there is no healthy market, they don't care about the law, ethics etc, it's just about power and money.
Maybe more of their services should be forbidden in Europe combined with a large investment in European companies that deliver services that can comply with our laws and regulations? 🤔

Reflecting on various talks at #DH2025 I'm struck by the number of projects here and elsewhere at the intersection of oral histories and community archives that don't realise they could draw on those fields and digital public history for ethics, workflows and other practices

FBI gives Congress intel on alleged Chinese plot to create fake mail-in ballots in 2020 (John Solomon/Just The News)
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-gives-congress-intel-alleged-chinese-plot-create-fake-mail
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p48#a250617p48

Advances in LLMs with Focus on Reasoning, Adaptability, Efficiency and Ethics
Asifullah khan, Muhammad Zaeem Khan, Saleha Jamshed, Sadia Ahmad, Aleesha Zainab, Kaynat Khatib, Faria Bibi, Abdul Rehman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12365

Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
Vivek Chavan, Arsen Cenaj, Shuyuan Shen, Ariane Bar, Srishti Binwani, Tommaso Del Becaro, Marius Funk, Lynn Greschner, Roberto Hung, Stina Klein, Romina Kleiner, Stefanie Krause, Sylwia Olbrych, Vishvapalsinhji Parmar, Jaleh Sarafraz, Daria Soroko, Daksitha Withanage Don, Chang Zhou, Hoang Thuy Duong Vu, Parastoo Semnani, Daniel Weinhardt, Elisabeth Andre, J\"org Kr\"uger, Xavier Fresquet

CFP> Book Reviews for the Journal of Buddhist Ethics
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REPOSTING: Lecture by Wiebke Denecke (MIT) on ‘How Can We Leverage Our Cultural Wiring Around Nature…
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Ethics:
🎵 Farewell
#Ethics
https://leebones.bandcamp.com/track/a-farewell-to-ethics
https://open.spotify.com/track/4vsbpWT3VK79tzNNEWDj4F

@… Awesome, thanks for sharing. I teach a 3-week ethics course for UX Designers and I use the story in similar ways.

thank you, new york times

'The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study'
Report just released: https://braiduk.org/the-responsible-ai-ecosystem-seven-lessons-from-the-braid-landscape-study

#podcast recc: Talking With the Military Ethics Professor Who Resigned in Protest https://angryplanetpod.com/p/talking-with-the-military-ethics?r=4unjx via

Just 100 companies are responsible for 71% of human emissions. If institutions are the problem we could be letting them off the hook by focusing on individuals.

"[…] this sort of deflection of responsibility is likely what energy companies and other major corporations want: if we're pointing the finger at one another, we're not pointing it at them." (Catastrophe Ethics, p. 50)

Climate scientist Michael Mann in an interview about his book The New Climate War:…

Towards Creating Infrastructures for Values and Ethics Work in the Production of Software Technologies
Richmond Y. Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11490 ht…

Pam Bondi ousts ethics watchdog amid DOJ purge (Josephine Walker/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/14/pam-bondi-fires-ethics-chief-doj-purge
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p149#a250714p149

"I Hadn't Thought About That": Creators of Human-like AI Weigh in on Ethics And Neurodivergence
Naba Rizvi, Taggert Smith, Tanvi Vidyala, Mya Bolds, Harper Strickland, Andrew Begel, Rua Williams, Imani Munyaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12098

The Justice Department is accelerating its efforts to undo decades of civil service protections intended to insulate the work of law enforcement officials from political interference.
A new batch of more than 20 career employees at the department and its component agencies were fired on Friday,
including the attorney general’s own ethics adviser, Joseph W. Tirrell.
Others who were dismissed included a handful of senior officials at the U.S. Marshals Service, as well as pros…

Malaysia Charts Its Digital Course: A Guide to the New Frameworks for Data Protection and AI Ethics
https://fpf.org/blog/malaysia-charts-its-digital-course-a-guide-to-the-new-frameworks-for-data-protection-and…

Elite Russian university launches degree program on sanctions evasion https://therecord.media/russian-university-sanctions-evasion-degree

Another of my forays into AI ethics is just out! This time the focus is on the ethics (or lack thereof) of Reinforcement Learning Feedback (RLF) techniques aimed at increasing the 'alignment' of LLMs.
The paper is fruit of the joint work of a great team of collaborators, among whom @… and @…

Your regular reminder that I've made all my bookmarks on digital harm public since January 2019.

Closing in on 4,000 bookmarks…

Find them here:

https://raindrop.io/axbom/digital-ethics-6334413/

#DigitalEthics

La \'Ultima Frontera de La Filosof\'ia: Hacia una S\'intesis de La \'Etica del Futuro a Largo Plazo, el Riesgo Existencial y la Ontolog\'ia Posthumana
Santos E. Moreta Reyes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11568

On the Ethics of Using LLMs for Offensive Security
Andreas Happe, J\"urgen Cito
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08693 https://arxiv.o…

CFP> Book Reviews for the Journal of Buddhist Ethics https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20120110/cfp-book-reviews-journal-buddhist-ethics

Bondi Fires Her Personal Ethics Chief as DOJ Purge Continues (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bondi-fires-her-personal-ethics-chief-as-doj-purge-continues
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p53#a250713p53

Writing code that ignores robots.txt is a professional ethics violation.
This is a toot about #AI

"Ultimately, engaging the public enriches our scholarship. It pushes us to think more carefully about clarity, ethics, and relevance. It also ensures that the knowledge we produce contributes to a wider societal good, affirming the role of the university not just as a place of knowledge production, but also of public service."
#OpenScience
https://social.edu.nl/@Bibliothecaris/114833640819292319

Author and editor Callie Collins on finding spaces to think and work creatively https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Is there Ethics in Mathematics?
Roman Kossak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01185 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01185

Media ethics experts, New York Times contributors, and others say the way that the NYT presented its Zohran Mamdani article raises significant ethical concerns (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/times-mamdani-college-a…

RFK Jr. says medical journals are ‘corrupt.’ As former NEJM editors, we know he’s wrong
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/30/rfk-jr-medical-journals-nejm-jama-lancet-editors-respond-medical-journals-ethics/?utm_campaign=rss

I’m quoted here regarding the ethics in not disclosing to students and defense contractors that their information may have been leaked in an Indiana University data breach. Still no word of a third party investigator being engaged. Dear Internet, do your thing.
https://www.

Legit Q: What will be the consequences to #Trump if he's outed as a pedophile?
❌ His base doesn't care about his racism, sexism, lack of ethics or criminality
❌ Congress kowtows & rolls over for him every week
❌ SCOTUS is bought & sealed
❌ Reasonable people already know he's evil incarnate
I don't see this as a means to weaken or oust him.
Fr…

I share a lot of @…’s feelings here. (He doesn’t mention training data sourcing, but that’s on my mind too.)
There’s a layer of ethics and social impact that hangs, as Tim put it, as a stench over all the thinking about whether and how the tech is useful. I am actually willing to discuss the utility questions, but they are secondary.
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/114807889514002925

What Does Information Science Offer for Data Science Research?: A Review of Data and Information Ethics Literature
Brady D. Lund, Ting Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03165

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
Navigating LLM Ethics: Advancements, Challenges, and Future Directions
h…

CFP> Book Reviews for the Journal of Buddhist Ethics
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REPOSTING: Lecture by Wiebke Denecke (MIT) on ‘How Can We Leverage Our Cultural Wiring Around Nature…
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At my keynote for the 2025 Acadia Ethics Conference, a number of clinical therapists in attendance surprised me by embracing AI's potential to bridge mental health gaps and even flag anxiety-producing items in their offices from a single photo.
https://www.

Parents of young blind children face ethical dilemmas both when applying or withholding sensory substitution options: children have greater brain plasticity, but long-term benefit of sensory substitution in daily life has not yet been firmly established. #ethics #NeuroEthics

Not a #social #media researcher, but this seems wrong on many levels.
https://fediscience.org/@tsch…

SocialCredit
Thabassum Aslam, Anees Aslam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12099 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12099

The Turn to Practice in Design Ethics: Characteristics and Future Research Directions for HCI Research
Gizem \"Oz, Christian Dindler, Sharon Lindberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06055

“Our republic is worth fighting for.”
Patrick G. Eddington
“Resist and Heal,” my friends. Citizenship is not a spectator sport. “Finding and sharing trusted voices” is a critical part of the anti-fascist work to which we are now called.
More on: https://

"After The Great AI Ethics War, the lines were drawn. Embarrassing deepfakes had been sent and data centers had been destroyed, but we came out the other side wiser and stronger because of it."

CFP> Book Reviews for the Journal of Buddhist Ethics
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CFP: Failure: Understanding Art as Process, 1150-1750 (Florence, 15-17 Oct 20) Call for…
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Fellow citizens: What are you going to do between now and July 4, 2026, to protect and preserve our independence from a tinpot dictator❓
So, fellow citizens, I ask you:
Bow down to authoritarianism and normalize anti-democratic behavior.
Or
Reflect on the challenges facing the nation and become an advocate for policies that align with liberty, freedom, sovereignty, democracy, and the principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
This is your America. The choice …

I'm still gathering my thoughts on these AI-written papers passing peer review.
One thing that stands out though, is that it's a pretty clear ethics violation (since it's deception of reviewers without a debrief).
Yes it's a minor and possibly justifiable violation, but that kind of thing is only justifiable if your main claim is evaluated and published according to scientific principles.
The main claim here is "AI can write papers that pass peer revi…

The remarkable story of Dr. James Mackness — a 19th-century village doctor whose quiet compassion and tireless service touched lives from Wellingborough, Turvey and Northampton to Hastings. A life of duty, resilience, and heart. https://edintone.com/james-mackness/

Alina Habba Has Been Under an Ethics Investigation for Over a Year (Jose Pagliery/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/donald-trump/alina-habba-ethics-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p132#a250703p132

via https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/26/large-language-models-that-power-ai-should-be-publicly-owned:
Matteo Valleriani: "It is time to build public, open-access LLMs for the humanities…

It bothers me that so many LLM/genAI applications seem to be all about "now that we have new tool X, what can we do with it" while completely ignoring the question "for problem Y, what is the best tool for the job?"
Perhaps unsurprisingly for developers where we have strong evidence of poor ethics (e.g., uncritically using big-brand LLMs), I suspect that many of the people behind these systems care more about the exhiliration of using new tech and the prestige it might bring them than any of the problems they might claim to solve (if they even bother to identify such things at all). Turns out that's a great way to cause a lot of harm in the world, since you likely won't do a good job of measuring outcomes (if you even bother to do so) and you especially won't carefully look for systemic biases or ways your system might unintentionally hurt/exclude people. You also won't be concerned about whether your system ends up displacing efforts that would have led to better solutions.
#AI #GenerativeAI #GenAI #LLM

Democratic senators request ethics probe into Trump meme coin dinner https://ground.news/article/texas-gop-lawmakers-introduce-bills-to-display-ten-commandments-read-bible-in-schools_e0334e

"Mike gave a legendary talk called “F*ck You, Pay Me,” with a title inspired by a quote from the late Ray Liotta in the 1990 movie “Goodfellas.”
What is interesting about this talk is that, despite being primarily directed to designers, its contents are immediately suitable for freelancing software engineers, a profession whose work is, at least since the return of Steve Jobs to Apple in 1997, inextricably linked to that of designers."

Replaced article(s) found for cs.ET. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.ET/new/
[1/1]:
AI as Decision-Maker: Ethics and Risk Preferences of LLMs
https://

Dorothea Baur reflecting on #AI tech bros going all in on even your most personal data. Claiming to help you solve a problem which they helped create in the beginning:
"A breach of trust enabled by AI now becomes the justification for surveillance-based trust systems. And the very people who helped break the system are offering to fix it – in exchange for your iris. That’s not a safety fe…

CFP> Book Reviews for the Journal of Buddhist Ethics
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24 February Asia-Pacific Studies Seminar at Osaka U.: Normative power and parliamentarians - the…
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Parents of young blind children face ethical dilemmas both when applying or withholding sensory substitution options: children have greater brain plasticity, but long-term benefit of sensory substitution in daily life has not yet been firmly established, while mastering sensory substitution as an adult likely becomes harder and with more limited results. #ethics

Bowser hit with ethics complaint over travel paid for by Qatar (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3429846/muriel-bowser-qatar-ethics-complaint-travel-paid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p127#a250603p127

Replaced article(s) found for econ.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.GN/new/
[1/1]:
AI as Decision-Maker: Ethics and Risk Preferences of LLMs
https:…

Validation of the Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing Index: Do Computing Ethics Courses Make a Difference?
Aadarsh Padiyath, Casey Fiesler, Mark Guzdial, Barbara Ericson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06193

"...'Without press, we by default have to assume that our government relaying information to us, is true,' Cuccia wrote, calling that attitude 'the antithesis of what we believe in.'..."
She's just soooo close to finally get it... 🤞
It is surprising, but some Magas really seem to have a small sense of ethics and really want to advance the country and not the cult (although the exact arguments/means are still disputable).
🤔

Trump undermines Watergate laws in massive shift of ethics system

Then-Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman was 32 when, as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, she voted in 1974 for three articles of impeachment against President Richard M. Nixon.
She spent the next few years as part of a Congress that passed wave after wave of laws to rein in future presidents.

A half-century later, Holtzman, a New York Democrat, is watching as Donald Trump takes aim at post-Watergate reforms …

Just found out a project I'd kind of forgotten about was actually published on #Spotify Pleasantly surprised with how it sounds!
Given how Spotify doesn't really vibe with my personal ethics I never use it... Probably adding to why I didn't know about this.

For us who have been advocating for ethics (and security) as part of the curriculum for digital creators, vibe coding is a multiplier of harm.

There is no longer a curriculum. No chatbot is going to teach you what can go wrong. And any creator gets a free scapegoat.

”The chatbot did it!”

Ethics by Design: A Lifecycle Framework for Trustworthy AI in Medical Imaging From Transparent Data Governance to Clinically Validated Deployment
Umer Sadiq Khan, Saif Ur Rehman Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04249

Replaced article(s) found for math.HO. https://arxiv.org/list/math.HO/new
[1/1]:
- Is there Ethics in Mathematics?
Roman Kossak
https://…

Trump attacks Watergate laws in massive shift to ethics system - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/21/trump-watergate-presidency-congress/

Chrome extensions, short-form content, Substack clips, and tech ethics — it’s all in #EdTechSR 343 “Clickbait & Chrome!” from 1 Jan 2025!
on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/JnYFfkf0eAA
…

Elon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies,
which typically employ dozens of people to represent them.
⭐️But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
❌Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. …

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p9#a250630p9

(1/2) Can you trust what you hear? 🎧 Episode 344 of the EdTech Situation Room (from 15 Jan 2025) explores AI voice tech, misinformation, and media ethics in the digital age.
on Substack:
https://open.substack.com/p…

A Practical SAFE-AI Framework for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Developing Medical Artificial Intelligence Ethics Policies
Ion Nemteanu, Adir Mancebo Jr., Leslie Joe, Ryan Lopez, Patricia Lopez, Warren Woodrich Pettine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01304

Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents
Takao Fujii, Katie Seaborn, Madeleine Steeds, Jun Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01998

(1/3) Please join me today on Zoom at 12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT for "Beyond the Algorithmic Feed," a free MediaEd Club webinar for the Media Education Lab:
https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/beyond-algorithmic-feed
While som…

@… These are really great. I've just been reading through them all. They'll be hugely useful in my ethics course. 🙏

AI Human Impact: Toward a Model for Ethical Investing in AI-Intensive Companies
James Brusseau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07703 https://

Designing for Community Care: Reimagining Support for Equity & Well-being in Academia
Beatriz Severes, Ana O. Henriques, Rory Clark, Paulo Bala, Anna Carter, Rua Mae Williams, Geraldine Fitzpatrick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01690

Hello there.
I, or maybe we, intend this to serve both as a diary and a reference.
We are a jack of many trades. As such, it is hard to squeeze into 1.5k symbols, and it is by no means comprehensive. Still, sometimes labels are helpful.
Here is about IT, interconnections between technologies (Fullstack, Data Science... sometimes even AI and ethics of it). Politics, because our life is inevitably tied to it (especially with

The Ethical Implications of AI in Creative Industries: A Focus on AI-Generated Art
Prerana Khatiwada, Joshua Washington, Tyler Walsh, Ahmed Saif Hamed, Lokesh Bhatta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05549

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02945 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Epitome: Pioneering an Experimental Platform for AI-Social Science Integration
Jingjing Qu, Kejia Hu, Jun Zhu, Wenhao Li, Teng Wang, Zhiyun Chen, Yulei Ye, Chaochao Lu, Aimin Zhou, Xiangfeng Wang, James Evan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01061