AI & Agency: Because You Liked… AI Recommender Systems are shaping our viewing habits by curating what we see, raising deep questions about autonomy, agency, and control. View
AI & Trust: Tay’s Trespasses Microsoft’s Tay, an AI chatbot intended as a friendly companion, was quickly manipulated into spewing offensive content by internet trolls—highlighting the need for trustworthy AI systems. View
AI & Transparency: An Epic Deception Epic’s widely used AI tool for sepsis detection promised accuracy, but the “black-box” nature of the algorithm made it difficult to quickly and effectively evaluate its effectiveness. View
AI & Fairness: Beyond Blind Spots? AI tools from companies like Amazon and Google were supposed to remove human bias from hiring, but instead ended up replicating and reinforcing the same discrimination they aimed to fix. View
AI & Accountability: Who’s at the Wheel? When a self-driving car killed a pedestrian in 2018, it brought forth the question many had been pondering for years: when AI systems make fatal mistakes, who is truly accountable? View
Cheating: UNC’s Academic Fraud UNC’s academic fraud scandal uncovered an 18-year scheme of unchecked coursework and fraudulent classes that enabled student-athletes to play sports. View
Cardinals’ Computer Hacking St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Chris Correa hacked into the Houston Astros’ webmail system, leading to legal repercussions and a lifetime ban from MLB. View
Cheating: Sign-Stealing in MLB The Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scheme rocked the baseball world, leading to a game-changing MLB investigation and fallout. View
Ethical Pitfalls in Action Why do good people do bad things? Behavioral ethics is the science of moral decision-making, which explores why and how people make the ethical (and unethical) decisions that they do. View
LochteGate U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte’s “over-exaggeration” of an incident at the 2016 Rio Olympics led to very real consequences. View