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If Twitter banned Danielle Stella, why not ban Trump too?
By Brett Wilkins Twitter has long faced intense criticism for turning a blind eye to right-wing hate speech on its platform, including by the world’s most (in)famous tweeter, US President Donald Trump. In the face
All the Amazon money in the world couldn’t buy Seattle’s city council elections
By Brett Wilkins Here and San Francisco and all across America, last week marked the end of another grueling political campaign season. Here in the City by the Bay, it was a time for celebration
Somali villagers say US drone strike kills civilians gathering frankincense
By Brett Wilkins A recent US drone strike targeting Islamic State (IS) militants in northeastern Somalia accidentally killed two civilians gathering frankincense, according to village elders and a survivor interviewed by Voice of America. VOA
Tickets on sale for Ethics In Tech Community Night and comedy roasts!
We’re baaack! Ethics In Tech has had a busy year hosting, attending or covering all kinds of events, from some of the biggest tech industry conferences to intimate community discussion forums and just about everything
Microsoft betrays its AI principles by investing in Israeli facial recognition company AnyVision
By Brett Wilkins Microsoft — which recently adopted a set of six core principles for the development of ethical artificial intelligence (AI) — has come under fire for investing in an Israeli company that produces facial recognition
TechCrunch Disrupt tackles ethics in tech
It’s nice to know that an all-tech site like TechCrunch has a senior reporter focused on diversity, inclusion and social justice. Her name is Megan Rose Dickey and she moderated Friday’s opening main stage panel discussion
TechCrunch Disrupt SF: Marc Benioff on ‘a new kind of capitalism’
The Bible says something about it being easier to thread a camel through a needle than to get a rich man into heaven. It’s not every day that I begin a post with the words
Maisie Williams talks Daisie, GOT (no spoilers) at TechCrunch Disrupt
What do you do after starring in one of the most epic television series in history? If you’re Maisie Williams, life after playing supreme badass Arya Stark on Game of Thrones has been more about
Ethics In Tech Interview: US Rep. Jerry McNerney
At Saturday’s All Tech Is Human: San Francisco conference, Ethics In Tech founder Vahid Razavi and EIT board member and journalist Brett Wilkins sat down with Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) to discuss online privacy, net
UCOT Founder & CEO Christopher Ategeka on Regulating Big Tech
By Brett Wilkins Unintended Consequences of Technology (UCOT) founder and CEO Christopher Ategeka was a featured speaker at the All Tech Is Human conference at ThoughtWorks San Francisco on Saturday, September 21. The topic at
FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel on 5G, AI Ethics and the Digital Divide
By Brett Wilkins The opening panel session at All Tech Is Human: San Francisco featured Federal Communications Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, who spoke at length about 5G, the ethics of artificial intelligence, bridging the digital dive
US drone strike kills 30 Afghan pine nut farmers
By Brett Wilkins A US drone strike intended to destroy an Islamic State hideout instead killed dozens of Afghan farmers on Wednesday night. Reuters reports 30 pine nut farmers were were resting after a day’s
Jeff Bezos: Please don’t be a dirty, lying cheapskate
By Brett Wilkins Here at Ethics In Tech we like to make it clear to the world that we are not inherently against tech companies. To skeptics, we point out that our founder, Vahid Razavi,
50 states & territories launch antitrust probe of Google
Attorneys general from 48 US states and 2 territories announced on Monday that they were launching an investigation of what they called “potential monopolistic behavior” by internet giant Google. The bipartisan probe is being spearheaded
Lesbians Who Tech removes Palantir from conference sponsors over immigrant abuses
The LGBTQ tech organization Lesbians Who Tech have removed Palantir from a long list of corporate sponsors of its upcoming New York Leadership Conference, citing public outrage over the company’s complicity in human rights abuses
Imagine a world where technology was only used for the good of humanity…
Imagine a world where technology was only used for the good of humanity… A place where intention was as pure and unclouded as innovation – a place where artificial intelligence was only used for the
Employees urge Google to avoid complicity in border rights abuses
By Brett Wilkins Here at Ethics In Tech we’re quite used to hearing people snicker at the very name of our organization. Apparently there are quite a few people out there who think of “ethics
HRW Press Release: “Killer Robots: Russia, US Oppose Treaty Negotiations”
(Geneva) – Russia, the United States, and a handful of other nations investing in autonomous weapons are preventing efforts to start negotiations on a new treaty to retain meaningful human control over the use of force, Human