Gene editing, raises a host of ethical considerations and concerns. Here are some of the key ethical considerations regarding gene editing: Now in a best case scenario, we use something like CRISPR to reduce our chances to catching diseases, cancer, etc. We edit out genes that can cause us to gain unhealthy weight, and the…
While we’ve looked at some advantages of a cashless society, we should also look at some disadvantages. Here are some common issues people have: Less Privacy If I want to buy a present for my wife, I will often pay in cash at the store so she doesn’t go asking “What did you buy at…
In this class, I have three weeks set aside for students to pick an emerging technology and discuss it and ethical dilemmas that might occur from those technologies. There are a variety of topics you may want to talk about including: We shall discuss, and students are expected to research, and provide thoughts both pro…
We’ve previously looked at general purpose AI, and mentioned how there are some specific, or narrow focus AIs out there as well. These are designed to do a specific task, such as drive a car, detect intruders on a camera system, etc. Today, we walk to look at Self Driving, or Autonomous cars. This is…
We’ve previously looked at general purpose AI, and mentioned how there are some specific, or narrow focus AIs out there as well. These are designed to do a specific task, such as drive a car, detect intruders on a camera system, etc. Today we’re going to look at those that work with images specifically. While…
We’ve already talked a little about the ethical considerations of artificial intelligence applications because they collect data from sources which might not have given permission for the data to be used in that manner. This is a matter as we’ve already discussed about who owns “your” data. Consider how AI tools are being trained. Have…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a digital computer, or computer-controlled robot, to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience. – https://www.britannica.com/technology/artificial-intelligence…
We’ve previously looked at what is electronic voting. Then we looked at the ethics of allowing voting using an electronic method. Now we’ll discuss the ethics of preventing the use of electronic voting. Most, as we will see, are because of the chance of tampering. They showed this in the clever Sci-Fi TV show Eureka…
