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While school districts around the country debate whether to ban generative AI, some math and computer science teachers are optimistic that the tools could have a positive impact in their classrooms.
No practice or discipline exists in a vacuum, and that’s important to recognize now more than ever. To meet the moment and its own principles, Princeton must expand the content of introductory COS ...
In recent years, ethical issues in computer science such as hacking, data collection, and algorithmic bias have profoundly impacted our culture.
No, says Richard Weiss, a visiting assistant professor of computer science. That’s why he created a course in computer programming and ethics for students at Hampshire College who are not ...
One of the benefits of offering an entire course on ethics is that it emphasizes to engineers and computer scientists that ethics truly is its own discipline (and not a subject merely subservient to ...
The story of modern computer ethics begins, strangely enough, in wartime. As Nazi Germany escalated its bombing raids on England, American mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener volunteered ...
Without people in the room who understand the limitations of automated solutions to ethical issues, the potential for downstream harm escalates, says Bobby Schnabel, a CU Boulder professor of computer ...
A 2022 survey offers some insight into the teaching of tech ethics in computer science and related programs at 61 universities across 23 European countries. Approximately two-thirds of the ...
In the first of three essays, Marc Steen outlines a three step process for how organisations can practically integrate ethics into their IT projects and how different ethical perspectives can ...
Ethics can be an important part of emerging technology. In today’s Academic Minute, the University of Washington’s Nancy Jecker discusses one instance where it’s vital to be careful. Jecker is a ...
Brain-computer interfaces could allow soldiers to control weapons with their thoughts and turn off their fear. The ethics are still muddy.