by IFIP News | Nov 26, 2020 | Ethics, Home Slider
Australia’s Human Rights Commission has released a report highlighting the potential dangers of using artificial intelligence to make decisions around human rights, saying in-built biases could lead to unlawful and discriminatory outcomes. The Commission’s new...
by IFIP News | Sep 30, 2020 | Ethics, Home Slider, IFIP
At the virtual IFIP General Assembly (GA) held on 24th September 2020, the GA enthusiastically adopted a new IFIP Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct. The Code has been adapted from the ACM Code of Ethics published previously, which itself had been through many...
by IFIP News | Jul 30, 2020 | Ethics, Home Slider
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has called for an informed debate about the merits of developing local 5G capability in the wake of the British Government’s ban on using Huawei technology in the 5G network. Back in January, the Government announced Huawei could...
by IFIP News | Jun 29, 2020 | Ethics, Events, IFIP, WSIS
IFIP’s International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) will host a Thematic Workshop at the WSIS Forum in July, posing the question: Living the Standard – How Can the Information and Knowledge Society Live to an Ethical and FAIR Standard and Leave Nobody...
by IFIP News | Jun 29, 2020 | Ethics
AICA (Italian Society for Computer Science) has partnered with Rotary International to present the annual ETIC Prizes for excellence in the field of computer ethics research. The awards ceremony, held online on 18th June 2020, saw eight students receive prizes for...
by IFIP News | Feb 26, 2020 | Ethics, Home Slider, Professionalism in ICT
BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, has warned that a lack of diversity in teams developing artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to in-built bias and discrimination in its decisions. The comments are featured in a new report by the Committee for Standards in...
