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 in between.Through it all, we’ve found that laughter really is the best medicine during these Read more…
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 technology used to monitor and control Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. AI For Read more…
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 at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, a Q&A with Block Party founder and CEO Tracy Chou Read more…
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 “the Bible says.” It’s also not every day that I write (mostly) approvingly of a Read more…
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 helping others realize their creative dreams than it has about her own acting endeavors. All Read more…
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 neutrality and the global climate protests — but not killer robots. McNerney, a member of the Read more…
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 hand was how to better regulate tech companies. “Tech companies have become so big, bigger Read more…
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 and more. Rosenworcel is a Democrat who was appointed to the five-member FCC by President Read more…
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 work harvesting a field in the mountainous Wazir Tangi area of eastern Nangarhar province. At Read more…
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, is actually a tech entrepreneur, having founded BizCloud and having worked for some of the Read more…