In a Historic First, the Supreme Court Has Adopted a Code of Ethics
The code, which does not include any enforcement mechanism, comes after ProPublica and other outlets revealed that justices had repeatedly failed to disclose gifts and travel from wealthy donors.
I've been reading the last few days about opportunity hoarding, especially amongst White self-identified Liberals in the US. It's very fascinating stuff, but it indirectly reminds me of something I think of a lot when I read a subset of liberal and leftist political discourse.
I'm sure she probably doesn't even remember telling me this, but a good friend and philosopher once said to me (paraphrasing, it was years ago):
"We should be immediately skeptical - not completely close-minded, but skeptical - of any moral or political claim that is made that involves a lot of changes and sacrifices for many people but conveniently none for the people making the claim in question."
I'm in the #Humanities Commons instance, and we have free profiles like https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan that include a link to the old blue bird of Twitter, and members are increasingly leaving, so our admins at @hello might want to reconsider having that item in the next version of profiles.
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Ethics is of course a large blobby term, it's with regard to the software and its entanglements. Payment options are also important, but so tricky.
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“OpenAI quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology for military purposes from its usage policy, which seeks to dictate how powerful and immensely popular tools like ChatGPT can be used.”
"Yesterday, the Supreme Court announced an ethics code for the justices. But the code is utterly empty. It has no enforcement mechanism and no mechanism for the public to lodge complaints of misconduct.
Late to the party but here I am now on mastodon! Follow me if you are interested in uk academia, higher education, developing educational analog games, dignity at work, critical management studies, business ethics, or just general nerdery about sci-fi, fashion or fantasy. #games#ethics#academia#introduction
AI has learned to lie to humans, and now researchers are trying to figure out what that means for humanity’s future. They have found examples of AI systems that can deceive, manipulate, and even premeditate their actions, such as playing games, chatting, or generating content. AI could pose serious threats to our security, privacy, and trust, and we need to establish ethical and legal frameworks to regulate AI behaviour.
>Intellectual historian Émile P. Torres @xriskology explains how Silicon Valley’s favorite ideas for changing the world for the better actually threaten to make it much, much worse.
It never gets anything but uglier and more corrupt with each new revelation about Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. And, yet, in so many ways, this corruption has gone on right out in the open, brazenly, with a contemptuous challenge to the public to try and do anything about calling an untouchable Supreme Court justice to accountability.
Senior litigators at prestigious law firms used Venmo to pay a #ClarenceThomas aide. The money appears connected to “Thomas’s 2019 Christmas party.” All were former clerks.
“A federal government employee collecting money from lawyers for any reason … I don’t see how that works.”
Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W Bush administration.
Kudos to The Guardian for its dogged reporting on #SCOTUS#ethics.
Coffee labeled as “100% arabica” may be delicious, but it’s not necessarily a good choice for the environment.
And then what about words like single-origin and fair-trade and shade-grown? A coffee-loving ethical marketing professor gives some helpful definitions.
"This Court’s love for the money power has been obvious and consistent. Justices with a conscience would recognize that sponging off billionaires renders them disqualified from judging a case involving how much those billionaires will be taxed as billionaires but, who am I kidding, right?"
... including a framework to evaluate models from several sustainability-related angles, including #EnergyEfficiency, #carbon intensity, #transparency, and #social implications
How do you approach questions of sustainability & #AIethics in your #GeoAI work?
Last Friday we did a poll to know what was more important for you when choosing Vivaldi as your #browser.
The people of the #Fediverse have spoken! 📢 Almost half of you selected our company #ethics as the number one reason to be with us, with features (27%) and customization (21%) taking the second and third place.
Our principles and values are at the backbone of everything we do, so we are incredibly proud to see that our users care about it too.
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Justice Alito says Congress lacks the power to impose an ethics code on the Supreme Court (www.msn.com)