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#StopHateForProfit and the Ethics of Boycotting by Corporations
In July 2020, more than 1000 companies that advertise on social media platforms withdrew their business, citing failures of the platforms (especially Facebook) to address the proliferation of harmful content. ...
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Deepfake Pornography and the Ethics of Non-Veridical Representations
We investigate the question of whether (and if so why) creating or distributing deepfake pornography of someone without their consent is inherently objectionable. We argue that nonconsensually distributing dee...
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Open AccessSeparating facts and evaluation: motivation, account, and learnings from a novel approach to evaluating the human impacts of machine learning
In this paper, we outline a new method for evaluating the human impact of machine-learning (ML) applications. In partnership with Underwriters Laboratories Inc., we have developed a framework to evaluate the i...
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Autonomous weapons systems and the moral equality of combatants
To many, the idea of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) killing human beings is grotesque. Yet critics have had difficulty explaining why it should make a significant moral difference if a human combatant is kil...
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Autonomous Machines, Moral Judgment, and Acting for the Right Reasons
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Pilgrims sailing the Titanic: Plausibility effects on memory for misinformation
People rely on information they read even when it is inaccurate (Marsh, Meade, & Roediger, Journal of Memory and Language 49:519–536, 2003), but how ubiquitous is this phenomenon? In two experiments, we investiga...
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Consumerism
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Moral Imperialism
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Revisiting within-modality and cross-modality attentional blinks: Effects of target—distractor similarity
When two masked targets (T1 and T2) require attention and are presented within half a second of each other, the report accuracy for T2 is reduced, relative to when the two targets are presented farther apart i...