Applied questions
Ethics
A score travels beyond its original purpose. A service becomes hard to refuse. A useful system consumes scarce water. The arrangement, not just the intention, needs examining.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Freedom Convenience can widen a life or arrange it around somebody else's goal. The difference includes the cost of choosing otherwise.
- Privacy Private space allows a person to try, change, and leave parts of a life unrecorded; evidence can also be necessary for redress.
- Automation and Work A saving becomes a shorter week, a larger margin, or a lost job through decisions people make.
- Algorithmic Bias A model can preserve an unjust history accurately. Fairness also requires choices about what an error means and who bears it.
- The Environmental Cost of Computation A computational choice has a place, a power source, material dependencies and people who bear its costs.
- Synthetic Media Disclosure and consent protect both the person represented and the possibility of knowing what happened.
- Digital Memorials and the Dead A record preserves something a person said. A simulation produces something they did not. Both require decisions about custody and consent.
- Children and Artificial Intelligence Questions for adults choosing tools that can instruct, persuade or appear companionable to children.
- Responsible Creation Responsibility follows actual powers and decisions; it cannot be assigned to a powerless person at the end of a chain.
- When to Stop Stopping should be a supported capability, with an account of both the harm prevented and the people who depend on what ends.