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    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      Moral Money
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      Is horse racing at risk? FT Weekend goes to a Miami racetrack to find out

    • Tuesday, 11 April, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      The algorithms of justice involve unpalatable trade-offs

      Technology has given a new level of precision to old debates but governments need to be honest about the difficult choices

    • Monday, 21 November, 2022
      FT Series
      Tech Champions

      The Financial Times invites readers to name European companies that are using new technology to meet today’s business challenges — from geopolitical tensions to the rise of AI. Here is this year’s call for entries, plus profiles of last year’s winners

    • Friday, 21 January, 2022
      Deepmind Technologies Ltd
      DeepMind co-founder leaves Google for venture capital firm

      Some staff had criticised Mustafa Suleyman for an overly aggressive management style

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    • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
      Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan
      Why ethics must be built into tech development

      Business schools should teach that responsibility need not hamper innovation

      Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg with then European Parliament president Antonio Tajani before a 2018 hearing on a data privacy scandal
    • Monday, 11 October, 2021
      Anjana Ahuja
      A global AI bill of rights is desperately needed

      Algorithmic decision-making has long put technology first, with due diligence an afterthought

      The twelve amendments submitted by the Congress of the United States in 1790 to safeguard the rights of individuals from the interference of the federal government
    • Sunday, 10 October, 2021
      US Department of Defense
      US has already lost AI fight to China, says ex-Pentagon software chief

      Nicolas Chaillan speaks of ‘good reason to be angry’ as Beijing heads for ‘global dominance’

    • Sunday, 3 October, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Machines are not ready to take over just yet

      Labour shortages will spur further automation — but not everywhere

      A self-guided misting robot makes its way past attendees at the ZGC Forum in Beijing last month
    • Friday, 25 June, 2021
      FT Magazine
      Meet the activists perfecting the craft of anti-surveillance

      They’re fighting back against the growing use of high-tech monitoring by taking increasingly fringe counter-measures

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special Report
      TechFT: Big Tech & Ethics

      Technology is transforming societies around the world, but governments and the companies behind that technology have struggled with ethics and morality, from self-regulation to surveillance to AI bias. How can we understand these complex problems — and begin to find better answers?

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Silicon Valley reboots its relationship with the US military

      Some tech groups are stepping back from becoming too ‘interconnected’, while others are stepping in

      Google employees compelled their employer to stop work on intelligence projects for the Pentagon
    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      In charts: facial recognition technology — and how much do we trust it?

      The global market is growing, but technical bias against women and people of colour is cause for concern

    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Critics raise alarm over Big Tech’s most powerful tools

      Artificial intelligence has been honed by new techniques of machine learning to maximum effect

      So-called dark patterns are used by tech companies to nudge users online, such as encouraging them to spend money
    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
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      Online privacy: a fraught philosophical debate

      Discourse tends to be western-centric — that is a problem for the rest of the world, say academics

      Privacy settings: an individual matter in the west
    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Facebook’s Oversight Board: an imperfect solution to a complex problem

      The social media platform’s self-policing model is an attempt to stave off regulators, say critics

      Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has handed responsibility for ultimate rulings on content moderation — including on posts by Donald Trump — to a body of his own making
    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Frederick Mostert
      Your day in court: social media needs a system of due process

      Platforms must apply the principles of procedural fairness and natural justice in a standardised and universal way

      US Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas has suggested that social media platforms be regulated in a similar way to phone companies
    • Monday, 17 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Rana el Kaliouby: ‘We should think of ourselves as stewards of technology’

      The CEO of ‘artificial emotional intelligence’ start-up Affectiva says the pandemic changed attitudes to machine learning

      Rana el Kaliouby at her offices in Boston: Affectiva builds face-scanning technology for detecting emotions, but its founders decline business opportunities that involve spying on people
    • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
      Special ReportTechFT: Big Tech & Ethics
      Q&A: How is Big Tech dealing with ethical problems?

      FT correspondents Madhumita Murgia and Kiran Stacey answered your questions on the use of artificial intelligence by companies

    • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Genius Makers, by Cade Metz — the tribal war in AI

      A guide to an intellectual counter-revolution that is already transforming the world

    • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Building trust in AI systems is essential

      Google and others have to prove the technology can be used for good

      Former Google researcher Margaret Mitchell said the company risked baking historic biases into AI because the systems rely on unrepresentative data sets
    • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Blame not the robot but the human behind it

      Building public trust in artificial intelligence systems is essential

    • Sunday, 6 December, 2020
      Technology
      Why business cannot afford to ignore tech ethics

      Using new technology without weighing social impact could cost companies dearly

      Facial recognition technology has been plagued by accusations of bias
    • Monday, 3 June, 2019
      FTfmPeter Montagnon
      A tech challenge? Fear not, many AI issues boil down to ethics

      Machines may be complex but they cannot make qualitative or moral judgments

      Many decisions are about risk appetite and oversight, as shown by the reaction to the outbreak of equine flu in Britain last winter (Joe Giddens/PA Wire)
    • Thursday, 30 May, 2019
      Artificial intelligence
      How governments are beginning to regulate AI

      The first international accord on AI development comes as countries grapple with the future of governance of the technology

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