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Norway’s wealth fund urged to extend weapons ban to include killer robots
By Brett Wilkins An ethics committee appointed by the Norwegian government is recommending that companies that manufacture lethal autonomous weapons — killer robots — be excluded from investment by the country’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund. Bloomberg
US to ‘reinterpret’ arms pact to sell more drones
By Brett Wilkins The United States plans to reinterpret a decades-old arms control agreement so that US weapons companies can sell more unmanned aerial drones to nations including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates,
Amazon, Microsoft pause sales of facial recognition tech to police
By Brett Wilkins The current wave of deadly civil unrest sparked by police and white supremacist killings of unarmed black people including Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have brought increased scrutiny of tech
Ethics In Tech stands with #BlackLivesMatter
By Brett Wilkins From the moment I first encountered Ethics In Tech, it was engaged in intersectional solidarity. Back in 2014, when EIT was a one-man operation, I met founder Vahid Razavi not at a
The Trump-Twitter war, explained
By Brett Wilkins One would be remiss to say it all started with the tweets suggesting that MSNBC host and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough murdered his young aide nearly 20 years ago. To do
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UK police increasing AI use without public consultation
British police are increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition and predictive policing technologies, often without promised public consultation, according to a new report from the London-based Royal Society of Arts (RSA). (RSA), a 266-year-old
The US Senate just voted against banning warrantless surveillance of your internet searches
By Brett Wilkins There are few surer signs of a democracy in danger than permanent states of emergency. One could reasonably argue that such a state existed in the immediate smoldering aftermath of the September
COVID-19 conspiracy theorists spreading online misinformation, despite crackdown
By Brett Wilkins Coronavirus misinformation is making me sick. Conspiracy theorists and armchair epidemiologists are running rampant on social media. This, despite tech companies’ best efforts to cure this cancer. If you’re familiar with the