Ethics

Krznaric writes about empathy as a civic virtue rather than a psychological faculty — as a practice that changes how societies treat strangers, how institutions design services, and how workplaces organise. This early es…

O'Neil, a mathematician who moved from academia to Wall Street to data science, identifies a class of predictive models she calls Weapons of Math Destruction: opaque, unregulated, and operating at scale in domains where…

A catalogue of how the assumptions, demographics, and blind spots of design teams crystallise into products that harm the people they claim to serve — from name-validation forms that reject non-Western characters to algo…

Cowen's philosophical argument that sustained economic growth — broadly defined to include environmental quality, leisure, and human capabilities — is a moral imperative because it is the only reliable mechanism for impr…

Watermarking is positioned as neutral infrastructure for AI content authentication, but Nemecek et al. reveal how its effectiveness varies systematically across cultural and demographic lines — what they term the 'plural…