According to some, artificial intelligence (AI) is the new electricity. Like electricity, AI will transform every major industry and open new opportunities that were never possible. However, unlike ...

Conceptual frameworks drawn from theories that have shaped the study of ethics over centuries can help us recognize and describe ethical issues when we encounter them. In this way, a basic grasp of ...

Ann Skeet is the senior director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Philosophers and ethicists were consulted when the Markkula Center for Applied ...

While the public may not always be aware, police departments are using machine learning technologies to forecast where crime might occur. Since these systems often use historical data to make ...

In recent years, many health care professionals have been confronting the challenging chapters of their institutions’ history, as societies more broadly grapple with how to deal with past ...

As the new year begins, many around California are embarking on a new endeavor: Serving for the first time on a city council, school board or other public agency board or commission. Those newly ...

In a recent Nature article, researchers introduced a novel ethical framework for using artificial intelligence (AI) in public health, aiming to ensure that AI tools are developed and deployed in ways ...

Artificial intelligence has already created the beginning of an apocalypse of sorts. Starting from attending to customer queries and optimizing logistics to detecting fraud and conducting analysis, ...