To put these questions in context, Nascimento says, consider what happened at the Christchurch mosque in New Zealand earlier this year, when a gunman livestreamed an attack in which dozens of people ...
If you are looking to pursue a career in computer science, you may have wondered what, if any, discussion exists around ethics in this field. The good news is that computer science ethics is an ...
With the aggressive pace of technological change and the onslaught of news regarding data breaches, cyber-attacks, and technological threats to privacy and security, it is easy to assume these are ...
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science community should change its ...
Throughout 2025, Computer Weekly’s technology and ethics coverage highlighted the human and socio-technical impacts of data-driven systems, particularly artificial intelligence (AI). This included a ...
Move over, coding. Some schools are asking student programmers to think critically about rapid advances in artificial intelligence. Marisa Shuman challenged her students at the Young Women’s ...
If it seems like every week there’s a new scandal about ethics and the tech industry, it’s not your imagination. Even as the tech industry is trying to establish concrete practices and institutions ...
The story of modern computer ethics begins, strangely enough, in wartime. As Nazi Germany escalated its bombing raids on England, American mathematician and physicist Norbert Wiener volunteered his ...
As with 2022, Computer Weekly technology and ethics coverage continued with a focus on working conditions in the tech sector, looking, for example, at the experience of UK Apple workers attempting to ...