I came to the United States from Iran at the age of eleven and lived near International-House (I-House) on top of Bancroft Way. The apartment I lived in was only a few streets away from where the University California Berkeley Football team played its weekly games. As a kid I could climb the hills overlooking the stadium and watch the games for free among the eucalyptus trees.
As online human rights activists, peace activists, and digital rights activists continue to be blocked, censored, shadow-banned and face algorithmic bias by BigTech Platforms run by Instagram, Facebook, X (Formally Twitter), Microsoft’s LinkedIn, TikTok, and others we have started two new groups to learn how to “train peace doves and Read more
Remembering Hiroshima and Imagining a World Without Autonomous Killer Robots, Nuclear Weapons and Blanket Surveillance Ethics In Technology, in partnership with Mines Action Canada, and The Campaign to Ban Killer Robots brings another night of thought-provoking presentations and comedy. Ethics in Tech was founded in 2013 by Vahid Razavi, technology entrepreneur and lifelong human rights Read more
The World Post Pandemic: How surveillance and weapon systems, used unwisely, can harm humanity! Mark Twain once wrote “against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” Ethics In Technology is planning to put Mark Twain’s statement to the test about the military-industrial complex and the surveillance state. Join us for Read more
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 sustainable, greater good of society. Imagine a world where politics, greed and scientific experimentation never Read more
(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 Rights Watch said today. More than 70 member countries of the Convention on Conventional Weapons Read more
Ethics In Tech France’s data privacy protection agency has fined Google €50 million ($56.8 million) for failing to comply with the European Union’s new European Union data protection regulations. Agence France-Press reports the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) slapped Google with the record penalty for violating the General Data Read more
Ethics In Tech By Brett Wilkins Facebook’s 10-Year Challenge is arguably the hottest meme of 2019. More than five million social media users — many on Twitter and Instagram as well as Facebook — have posted side-by-side photos of themselves from now and a decade ago with the caption “how did aging Read more
Ethics In Tech By Brett Wilkins If you ask, most Americans will tell you that online privacy is important to them. However, the results of a newly-released survey reveal that most people say they wouldn’t pay for it. Only one in four Americans would pay online services like Facebook or Read more
Ethics In Tech By Brett Wilkins IBM is providing insight into how artificial intelligence makes decisions, part of an effort to demystify AI and tackle the problem of bias in machine learning. IoT For All reports IBM’s new open-source AI Fairness 360 toolkit is able to both search for and mitigate bias Read more