Ethical Markets recommends this new group trying to tame social media. Their program is similar to our views in “Let’s Train Humans Before We Train Machines” ( 2018) ; and “The Future of Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age“, CADMUS, Oct. 2018; and forthcoming “The Politics of Connectivity“ (all at …
A Win For Shareholders In Effort To Halt Sales Of Amazon’s Racially Biased Surveillance Tech
April 5, 2019 Press Release A Win for Shareholders in Effort to Halt Sales of Amazon’s Racially Biased Surveillance Tech S.E.C. Ruling Advances Two Shareholder Proposals Targeting Amazon’s Rekognition In a major victory for investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled late Wednesday that Amazon must give …
News from NEF: algorithms, the green transition, and household debt
“Ethical Markets highly recommends this excellent report from our longtime friends at the London-based New Economics Foundation. I was proud to serve on its founding board of trustees and author its “Beyond Globalization“ (1999)! We are following these IT and algorithm issues (see my “The Future of Democracy Challenged in …
DealBook Briefing: Facebook Prioritizes Privacy. Can It Deliver?
“Ethical Markets agrees that the dominant social media firm Facebook needs to up its game! We support Senators Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, who are both calling for more anti-trust enforcement to break up Facebook, Amazon and Google, which grew from network effects provided by taxpayer-supported internet platforms. see my …
Knight Foundation-Congratulations to the winners of the AI and the News Open Challenge!
“Ethical Markets congratulates the Knight Foundation for this important initiative and congratulates all the winners and runners-up! We are happy to see Tim Berners-Lee speaking out on the mis-use of the internet and the WorldWideWeb for profit, and continue to follow these issues closely, see my “The Future of Democracy …
Our Algorithms are Biased
“Ethical Markets has also explored these issues of biased algorithms in our recent articles: “Let’s Teach Humans …Before We Teach Machines“ and “The Future of Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age“ (at www.ethicalmarkets.com). Hazel Henderson, Editor“ Our Algorithms are Biased By Miriam McKinney For almost a year, our team …
Book Review: Cyber-War “What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know”
Cyber-War “What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know” “Have Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President” by Kathleen Hall Jamieson Jamieson, pre-eminent media analyst of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania provides the clearest account so far of how the US 2016 presidential election …
FTI Tech Trends Newsletter #114: Behavioral Biometrics
Announcement: New Book Future Today Institute founder Amy Webb has a new book out about the future of AI and the urgent steps we need to make now to set it on the right track. Just previewed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, it’s called The Big Nine: How the Tech …
GOOG: Trump to hold tech summit this week
GOOG :Trump to hold tech summit this week 8:42 am, Sun, Dec. 11, 2016 Read now »
Horyou SIGEF 2016
Technological, Social and Environmental Development – Why We Should All Connect for Good By Vivian Soares A new type of social morals has risen on the Internet and beyond. It says that real “sharing” does not stop at posting personal opinions and sel?es on social media, but that it can be …