Legal and Ethical Concerns behind Github Copilot

Writing down the last line of code, I finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the pressure of the past ten days evaporated. I scrolled up to the beginning of my program, adding some last comments about the program descriptions and usages…

From Love to Addiction: The Gamification of Online Dating

Swipe left, swipe right — An incessant repetition of swipes, reeling in just like a game. Gamification has become an increasingly popular design choice for dating apps, with many platforms incorporating game-like elements such as…

Cancel Culture Has the Opposite Effect It Should Have

By Elizabeth Wu

The Illusion of a Free Market in Silicon Valley

Deepfakes: When to Draw the Line?

When is it time to call it quits on a new technology? In our ever-advancing world of artificial intelligence and computing power, will we ever be able to set aside the allure of profits in favor of ethical considerations? Set aside the new and the innovative in favor of…

A Digital Metaphysics

How we interact with machines is not merely a matter of external design; it’s a…

Twitter is not your toy, Elon.

In a time when misinformation and hate speech runs rampant online, the…

The Dark Side of AI: Understanding the Risks of Black Box Algorithms

Black box algorithms are like mysterious strangers with a shady past. We don’t know how they make their decisions, we don’t know what kind of biases they have, and we don’t know what kind of secrets they’re…

The Necessity of Hackers

In July 2017, Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the United States, announced that it had…

Your Health is Unfairly Determined by an Algorithm

You just fell off your bike and sense that a bone may be broken. You head into the ER and find out your injury requires surgery. The type of surgical treatment you are going to receive is determined by a computer, and your treatment will be…