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The Autocracy of Autonomous Systems
We, as developers of such systems, need to take some conscious decisions to make sure we do not usher in the age of autocracy…
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Lessons from a First-Year Seminar
Teaching a first-year seminar to a mixed group musters the basics of computer science.
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Variable Vagaries
The variable, construed as an L-value, makes some offbeat appearances.
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The Artificialistic Fallacy
Ethics discussions of artificial intelligence reveal a fallacy of omission.
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What Is a Variable?
A stab at a definition, for outsiders, of what we in computing mean by the term "variable" raises more questions than it answers.
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FictionStein
Science fiction like Frankenstein nudges readers to confer humanity but nudges them away from moral fortitude.
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Tech ser Responsibility
User support presents serious challenges that are aggravated by indeterminate client responsibility.
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First-Class Philosophical Failure
Interrogation of "first-class object" as an analog to human life goes nowhere.
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Articulation of Decision Responsibility
Can we establish a locution for the results of a program that does not ascribe decision-making power?
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Examples of Phenomenology in Computing
The branch of philosophy known as phenomenology can broaden our understanding of what is really going on in the tasks we address with computing.
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Tech Ethics at Work
Ethics for Tech must address how professional issues play out in the workplace, in real life.
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Human Acts and Computer Apps
Our behaviors often seem to mimic the procedures that we induce in computers. What questions does that raise?
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It's Not the 'Why' Chromosome, It's the 'How'
Women do like the raw technical aspects of computer science.
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On the Ethics of Cyberwar
Keith Abney of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences group of California Polytechnic State University surveys the moral landscape of cyberwar.
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Deep Dictionary
The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from the computing community...
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The Ethical Problem of Software Neglect
We call the problem of mediocre sofware "neglect," and we pitch it in ethical terms by noting that it illustrates a failure of the ethics of care.
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Operating Systems as Possible Worlds
Is a comparison between operating systems, which are analyzed by software engineers for conditional execution paths, and possible worlds, which are analyzed by...
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Ethical Theories Spotted in Silicon Valley
Some of the prevailing theories of ethics surface in modern high tech. We take a quick and rather superficial look at their tracks on the ground, noting especially...
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Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.
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The Work and Inspiration of the Commission on the History and Philosophy of Computing
The international organization HaPoC promotes and sponsors research that brings together the history and the philosophy of computing.
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Fiction as Model Theory
Like model theory, fiction deploys a theory and an interpretation. An interpretation that makes the statements of the theory true demonstrates consistency, in...12