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"It is crucial to determine when technology provides advantages and when human intervention is more effective." ND TEC affiliate Nick Berente on research he and Mendoza College of Business colleague Kaitlin Wowak conducted using data from nearly 80K customer service calls. zmescience.com/science/news-s…

Registration closes in one week for the 2023 Digital Humanities Research Institute South Bend, a two-day workshop for humanities students, faculty and staff. Learn foundational computing skills to advance your digital projects. Learn more and register: library.nd.edu/event/2023-dig…

With Keough School of Global Affairs, we invite applicants for a tenure-track (open-rank) professorship in applied ethics and technology. The ideal candidate will have a strong research agenda in applied ethics related to AI and digital technology. More at: techethics.nd.edu/news-and-event…

"The FTC says Amazon's website used so-called dark patterns, or 'manipulative design elements that trick users into making decisions they would not otherwise have made.'" npr.org/2023/06/21/118…

Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and other technology companies that are leading the development of artificial intelligence technology have agreed to meet a set of AI safeguards brokered by President Joe Biden's administration. apnews.com/article/artifi…

Congrats to ND TEC postdoc Georgina Curto Rex and coauthors Svetlana Kiritchenko, Isar Nejadgholi, and Kathleen C. Fraser of NRC Canada on their outstanding paper award at ACL 2023 within the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms. More about the paper at ➡️ techethics.nd.edu/news-and-event…

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Are you a scholar working in tech ethics? If so, two faculty jobs currently open at University of Notre Dame may be of interest: —Sociology and Tech Ethics (based in University of Notre Dame Sociology): techethics.nd.edu/news-and-event… —Applied Ethics and Technology (based in Keough School of Global Affairs): techethics.nd.edu/news-and-event…

Buzzfeed recently published a now deleted article on what AI thinks Barbies would look like from different countries around the world. The results contained extreme forms of representational bias, which is something that AI image generators are prone to doing. 1/2

ND TEC’s Kirsten Martin has joined Stanford’s Jen King, PhD, Princeton’s Arvind Narayanan, and Northeastern’s Alan Mislove and Christo Wilson on the Data Technology & Practices Panel at the Center for State Enforcement of Antitrust and Consumer Protection Laws. techethics.nd.edu/news-and-event…

An update to Zoom’s terms of service has some people online worried the company will use their conversations to train AI. Zoom says it will not use audio, video or chat content for this purpose without additional consent. But other data is still fair game. apne.ws/WeraNik

Big congratulations to Clayton O’Dell, a University of Notre Dame junior majoring in computer science and pursuing a minor in tech ethics, who just had an essay on AI published in the summer 2023 issue of the The New Atlantis! techethics.nd.edu/news-and-event…

New research from Keough School of Global Affairs faculty member and ND TEC affiliate Yong Lee in the journal AI and Ethics on social media's role in distributing news, coordinating protests, and influencing political outcomes. Notre Dame Research techethics.nd.edu/publications/o…

With the Notre Dame Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center, we’re hiring a tenure-track professor focused on applied ethics and technology. Explore how AI & digital tech impact key policy areas (poverty, democracy, the environment, the future of work). Learn more & apply: go.nd.edu/bc9007

New open-access 📝 from ND TEC postdoc Georgina Curto Rex and Flavio Comim in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics on why bias can't be completely mitigated in machine learning and a method for potentially addressing that issue. Notre Dame Research Read more ➡️ techethics.nd.edu/publications/s…

Dr. Walter Scheirer's new book, "A History of Fake Things on the Internet" will be released on December 5th. Stanford University Press has a terrific write-up of it here: sup.org/books/title/?i…

In late August, Georgina Curto Rex, one of our tech ethics postdocs, travelled to Macao to co-chair the AI & Social Good Special Track at the IJCAIconf. The 216 submissions to the track aimed to leverage the state of the art in AI to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Cool event this Thurs, Sept. 28, at University of Notre Dame: “Hackers’ Roundtable: A Conversation on Computing, Security, and Culture” is being organized by ND TEC affiliates Walter Scheirer and Luis Felipe Murillo and will be moderated by Gabriella "Biella" Coleman of Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. techethics.nd.edu/news-and-event…

The Holistic ROI project is a collaboration between researchers at University of Notre Dame and IBM focused on building a method for calculating ROI on AI ethics initiatives. The team's first paper proposes a novel Holistic Return on Ethics framework. Read it here➡️ techethicslab.nd.edu/our-work/publi…

We are pleased to announce the appointment of our new acting director, Meghan Sullivan! She will build on the great work done by Kirsten Martin. Read the full announcement here: techethics.nd.edu/news-and-event…