The new lab is housed within Notre Dame’s Technology Ethics Center, which launched in fall 2019 to bring together people from different academic disciplines who are interested in the dilemmas confronting the industry. “A lot of technology ethics problems are really ethical problems that have existed a very long time, but they just have new applications because of the nature of technology,” McKenna said in an interview. In the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford’s Center for Ethics in Society launched a large course two years ago that integrates computer science, public policy and ethics. The university created the Block Center for Technology and Society in 2018 to address these issues. Facebook originally banned violent boogaloo content in May, but as The Technology 202 reported, affiliated pages were still sharing violent content.

Source: Washington Post July 01, 2020 13:05 UTC