About This Site
Explore AI Ethics is a curated directory of educational resources for teaching and learning about the ethics of artificial intelligence. Organized and searchable by both topic and category, each page contains either a short excerpt from the resource, a press release, a video, or in cases where permission has been granted, the full text. The View Resource button provides a convenient link back to the original content. Your contributions and comments are always welcome. Please use the Contact Form to send feedback or suggest a resource.
A Sampler of Topics
From healthcare to warfare, the rapid embrace of artificial intelligence in nearly every sector of society is raising important legal, social and ethical concerns. The potential benefits of this powerful technology are enormous. But so are the risks. In order to create a future that will maximize the benefits and minimize the risks, we need to be informed and involved.
- Teachers need an awareness of how AI intersects with their discipline and a curriculum to explain the ethical issues to students.
- Technology teams need tools to help them develop AI software that is safe, trustworthy and transparent.
- Citizens and lawmakers need guidelines to help them engage in an educated discussion about public policy for AI.
Explore AI Ethics provides a small sampling of the wide range of materials available to help you understand, practice and promote the responsible use of artificial intelligence.
The Collection
Topic Tags
AI for Good (51) Algorithms (96) Bias (50) Big Data (35) Creativity (16) Economics (29) Emotions (24) Engagement (7) Environment (8) Funding (22) Gender (38) Governance (102) Healthcare (58) Higher Ed (67) Human Rights (21) K-12 (38) Law (61) Military (29) Neuroscience (30) Philosophy (106) Privacy (24) Professionalism (52) Psychology (38) Religion (43) Responsible AI (109) Risk (26) Science Fiction (23) Sexuality (15) Social Media (19) Society (74) Teaching (53) Transportation (16)
Resource Categories
Articles (160) Books (154) Code of Ethics (5) Conference Papers (60) Curriculum (26) Discussions (10) Documentaries (50) Events (46) Guidelines (23) Journals (40) Lectures (30) News (201) Online Courses (14) Organizations (95) Podcasts (16) Projects (26) Reports (52) Student Papers (17) Tools (18) Websites (28)
In the Spotlight
Moral Code: The Ethics of AI
Mini-documentary produced by Hewlett-Packard
June 29, 2018 | Runtime 8 minutes
Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms: Pros and Cons
Mini-documentary by DW Documentary
September 26, 2019 | Runtime 51 minutes
Machine Learning: Living in the Age of AI
Mini-documentary produced Wired Magazine
June 20, 2019 | Runtime 41 minutes
For Everyone
- Documentary — PBS Frontline: In the Age of AI
- News — The term ‘ethical AI’ is finally starting to mean something
- Book — A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
- Project — The Privacy Project, a New York Times Series of news articles and videos
- Book — The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
For Policy Makers
- Documentary — Artificial Intelligence and its Ethics
- Report — 2019 AI Now
- Guideline — IEEE: Ethically Aligned Design – A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-being with Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, v2
- Tool — Democratising Decisions About Technology: A Toolkit
- News — The First Effort to Regulate AI Was a Spectacular Failure
For Programmers
- Article — Ethics in the Software Development Process: From Codes of Conduct to Ethical Deliberation
- Conference Paper — A Typology of AI Ethics Tools, Methods and Research to Translate Principles into Practices
- Lecture — AI, Ethics and Algorithms
- Book — The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design
- News — The Code I’m Still Ashamed Of
For Teachers – Higher Ed
- Book — Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Curriculum — Princeton Dialogues on AI and Ethics
- Articles — Embedded EthiCS: Integrating Ethics Across CS Education – Harvard University
- Project — Global Responsible Computer Science Community of Practice
- Organization — Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
- Conference Paper — What Do We Teach When We Teach Tech Ethics? A Syllabi Analysis
For Teachers – K-12
- Lecture — K-12 Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence: What Students Should Know
- Report — Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Schools
- News — Teaching Artificial Intelligence in Kindergarten
- Curriculum — An Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Middle School Students
- Curriculum — Minecraft Hour of Code: AI for Good – Use Coding to Prevent Forest Fires
- Website — AI4K12.org
For Students
- Documentary — Who is Manipulating YouTube, Twitter and Facebook?
- Book — WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
- Project — Moral Machine Experiment
- Book — Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
- Tool — People + AI Guidebook
- Online Course — University of Michigan: Data Science Ethics
- Online Course — Machine Learning Crash Course: Fairness
What’s New
- Ethical issues in using ambient intelligence in health-care settings
- Algorithmic bias and the Value Sensitive Design approach
- Automating autism: Disability, discourse, and Artificial Intelligence
- Beyond Bias: Re-Imagining the Terms of ‘Ethical AI’ in Criminal Law
- Ethics in the Software Development Process: From Codes of Conduct to Ethical Deliberation
- Harmonious Technology: A Confucian Ethics of Technology
- The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Engineering
- The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of Algorithms
- Machine Law, Ethics, and Morality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
- How Humans Judge Machines
- A Fun AI Syllabus for Kids
- Designing Tech Policy: Instructional Case Studies For Technologists And Policymakers
- Hour of Code: AI For Oceans – Learn About Machine Learning and Ethical Use of AI
- Minecraft Hour of Code: AI for Good – Use Coding to Prevent Forest Fires
- Microsoft AI for Good Schools Challenge – Australia
- US Department of Defense Officials Discuss Artificial Intelligence Ethics
- CRISPR, AI, and the Ethics of Scientific Discovery
- Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society: A Cross Disciplinary Conversation
- The Role of AI in Healthcare Innovation: Ethical Challenges of AI Innovation
- AI and Ethics: People, Robots and Society
- Using Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms
- Australian Government: AI Ethics Principles
- Mozilla’s Approach to Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
- Recommendation of the Council on Responsible Innovation in Neurotechnology
- U.S. Department of Defense: AI Principles – Recommendations on the Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence
- CertNexus Launches First High-Stakes, Vendor-Neutral Data Ethics Certification: Certified Ethical Emerging Technologist
- 3 Trusted AI Toolkits Join Linux Foundation AI as Newest Incubation Projects
- When Algorithms Give Real Students Imaginary Grades
- The Brain Implants That Could Change Humanity
- How AI and Art Hold Each Other Accountable
- Putting Ethics Into Action: A Beginner’s Guide to AI and Big Data Ethics
- University of San Francisco Data Institute: Applied Data Ethics
- The Linux Foundation: Ethics in AI and Big Data
- Seattle University: AI Ethics for Business
- University of California, Davis: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics
- University of Edinburgh: Data Ethics, AI and Responsible Innovation
- Stopping Killer Robots: Country Positions on Banning Fully Autonomous Weapons and Retaining Human Control
- National Artificial Intelligence Strategies and Human Rights: A Review
- Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies
- Unchecked Power: The root of big tech issues
- CDEI Review of Online Targeting: Final Report and Recommendations
- Addressing bias in large-scale AI applications: The LinkedIn Fairness Toolkit
- Fairlearn: A toolkit to assess and improve the fairness of machine learning models
- ECCOLA – a Method for Implementing Ethically Aligned AI Systems
- Closing Gaps Ideation Game
- Foresight into AI Ethics in Healthcare (FAIE-H): A toolkit for creating an ethics roadmap for your healthcare AI project
Start Here
The Ethical OS Toolkit
A guide to anticipating the future impact of today’s technology
Or: How not to regret the things you will build
The Ethical Operating System is a toolkit that guides you through the process of assessing the ethical implications of products that use artificial intelligence. It is a joint creation of the Institute for the Future and Omidyar Network’s Tech and Society Solutions Lab. This 78 page document includes:
- A checklist of 8 risk zones to help you identify the emerging areas of risk and social harm most critical for your team to start considering now.
- 14 scenarios to spark conversation and stretch your imagination about the long-term impacts of tech you’re building today.
- 7 future-proofing strategies to help you take ethical action today.
