From Oxford Online, we find these definitions:
philosophy: The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
ethics: Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity.
Baase, chapter 1 "Unwrapping the Gift"
Plato's Euthyphro (audio version is available here.)
Excerpt from Mill's On Liberty
Excerpt from Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals
Baase, chapter 2 "Privacy"
Baase, chapter 3 "Freedom of Speech"
Baase, chapter 4 "Intellectual Property"
Baase, chapter 5 "Crime and Security"
Obligatory xkcd collection:
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Various Ethics-oriented Resources
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science
Collection of ethical code URLs from NC State
Computer and Information Ethics (in particular, see the Uniqueness debate between Maner and Johnson)
Bynum: Computer ethics: Its birth and its future
Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence
Isaac Asimov: I, Robot
Norbert Weiner: The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (abbreviated HUHB in the notes.)
Other
Excerpt from The Grand Design episode of "Yes, Prime Minister"
News Items
2017-01-09: Do you own your own fingerprints?
2017-01-09: Makers of Self Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
2017-01-09: Driverless Cars: Who Gets Protected
2017-01-09: The social dilemma of autonomous vehicles
2017-01-09: Save the Driver or Save the Crowd?
2017-01-09: Dallas Shooter Killed By Bomb Robot In Policing First
2017-03-27: The End of Labor: How to Protect Workers from the Rise of Robots
2017-03-29: Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard (Fourth Industrial Revolution)
2017-03-29: WhatsApp must be accessible to authorities, says Amber Rudd
2017-03-29: No 10 Repeats Rudd's call for authorities to access encrypted messages
2017-03-29: The Importance of Strong Encryption to Security
2017-04-10: Vigilanteism: How to force manufacturers to take IOT security seriously
2017-04-10: Autonomity: Robot Surgeon Bests Human Surgeons
2017-04-10: Hand-to-hand cyberwar
2017-04-10: If animals have rights, should robots also?
2017-04-10: World Economic Forum's Top 9 Ethical Issues in Artificial Intelligence
2017-04-10: Machine Ethics: The Robot's Dilemma
2017-04-11: The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI
2017-04-11: China Moves to Further Tighten Regulation of Digital Information
2017-04-11: Chinese Firm Cuts Costs by Hiring Army of Robots
2017-04-12: Computing and Moral Responsibility
2017-04-14: Russian Humanoid Robots Learns to Shoot
2017-04-17: Can Liberty Survive the Digital Age?
2017-04-17: United States Air Force Demonstrates Autonomously Controlled F16
2017-04-17: OpenRobotEthics
2017-04-17: Autonomous Weapons
2017-04-17: Rules for Robots?
2017-04-17: Should Autonomous Cars Be Forced to Save Lives?
2017-04-17: Robots and Agriculture
2017-04-19: Hajime, mo
2017-04-19: Apple Removes New York Times Apps from Its Store in China
2018-08-27: An artist warns of our robot-ruled future. Or is it our present?
2018-08-29: Botched CIA communications system help blow cover of Chinese agents
2018-08-31: Can Beethoven send takedown requests?
2018-09-05: City of Tallahasse Ethics Board
2018-09-05: City introduces new ethics ordinances
2018-09-05: City of Tallahassee Code of Ethics
2018-09-14: Gizmodo: Google is helping the Pentagon build AI for drones
2018-09-14: BuzzFeed's coverage of the Google ethics quandaries
2018-09-14: Academia speaks out about Project Maven
2018-09-14: Google's code of ethics for its participation in AI projects
2018-09-14: Google and Project Maven
2018-09-14: The Intercept's Dragonfly article
2018-09-14: New York Times: Google tried to change China; will China instead change Google?
2018-09-14: Telepathy with drone swarms
2018-09-17: Artificial Intelligence: The revolution has not happened yet
2018-09-19: Menlo Report: Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research
2018-09-19: Ethical Considerations in Network Measurement Papers
2018-09-19: SAP's Ethics and AI Stance
2018-09-19: Microsoft's Approach to AI
2018-09-19: The Ethics of Data Flow
2018-09-20: At the farm, the boss is an AI-powered algorithm
2018-09-21: DARPA wants brain interfaces for able-bodied warfighters
2018-09-24: Leave no dark corner
2018-09-24: China's use of big data might actually make it less big brother-ish
2018-09-24: China's social credit system seeks to assign citizens scores, engineer social behavior
2018-09-26: China's Orwellian social credit system is expanding overseas
2018-10-01: Don't get distracted
2018-10-01: No cash needed at this cafe
2018-10-03: Cornell food researcher's downfall raises larger questions for science
2018-10-05: Nurse by phone
2018-10-05: AI and healthcare (Wired article)
2018-10-05: Humans need not apply?
2018-10-16: Gartner Picks Digital Ethics and Privacy as a Strategic Trend for 2019
2018-10-23: International Privacy Conference
2018-10-24: Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the "data industrial complex"
2018-10-25: Europe's new copyright law could change the web worldwide
2018-10-25: Europe considers a new copyright law
2018-10-25: Legal AI?
2018-10-25: AI generates portraits and profits
2018-10-25: Responsible technology? Who decides?
2018-10-25: Future warfare: no human needed (Do we need a new definition of warfare?)
2018-10-25: Future of Life Institute
2018-10-29: A living hard drive: this GIF was stored in the DNA of bacteria
2018-10-29: Baidu's AI can do simultaneous translation between any two languages
2018-10-29: Duplication-correcting codes for data storage in the DNA of living organisms
2018-10-31: Ethical implications of artificial and the role of governmentts
2018-10-31: DOD official highlights value of artificial intelligence to future warfare
2018-10-31: Project Maven to deploy computer algorithms to war zone by year's end
2018-10-31: Robot Wars
2018-11-05: Tool does not work
2018-11-07: Facial recognition advances
2018-11-07: Facebook admits that it was used to incite violence in Myanmar
2018-11-07: Gait recognition
2018-11-16: AI for APTs
2018-11-16: 'I don't really want to work for Facebook' say some computer science students
2018-11-26: Dawn of the Code War
2018-11-26: How I changed the law with a github pull request
2018-11-26: Open Law Library?
2018-11-27: We are Google employeess, Google must drop Dragonfly
2018-11-28: Google attacks mosquito-borne disease
2018-11-28: Inside Sellafield's death zone with the nuclear clean-up robots
2018-11-28: Some Googlers support Project Dragonfly
2018-12-05: Chatbots: Civic Danger?
2018-12-05: Computations as Propaganda?
2018-12-05: Big Brother becomes Big Algorithm?
2018-12-05: Is ethical technology a farce?
2018-12-07: Alphazero shedding new light on chess, shogi, and go"
2018-12-07: Science article on Alphazero's superhuman successes
2019-01-11: Humans need not apply (original link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU)
2019-01-14: Facebook executive swatting sends significant police response to his home
2019-01-14: Tokyo cafe to use robot waiters operated by people with physical disabilities
2019-01-15: The reason that software remains insecure
2019-01-16: Harris on Wired's dangerous internet entities?
2019-01-16: Stingrays in Florida
2019-01-16: Florida Cops' Secret Weapon: Warrantless Cellphone Tracking
2019-01-16: Florida Committe Passes Bill to Ban Warrantless Stingray Spying
2019-01-16: Stingray Secret Surveillance Programs
2019-01-16: When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us
2019-01-17: What would a world without pushbuttons look like?
2019-01-18: Giving algorithms a sense of uncertainty could make them more ethical
2019-01-18: IBM Service Platform with Watson
2019-01-22: Google lies about me
2019-01-24: Age of Social Credit
2019-01-25: Why China's Social Credit Systems are Surprisingly Popular
2019-01-28: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
2019-01-28: The case for taking AI serioiusly as a threat to humanity
2019-01-28: Alphastar beats professionals at Starcraft II
2019-01-29: Automation at Davos
2019-01-30: The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
2019-01-30: AI Encroaching on Financial Advice Services?
2019-01-30: Blackrock's Engagement with AI
2019-01-30: AI powers Emma Hedge Fund
2019-01-31: Why ethical robots might not be such a good idea after all
2019-01-31: AI Principles from the Future of Life Institute
2019-02-01: Robot plays Jenga
2019-02-01: Why you should not fear slaughterbots
2019-02-01: Why you should fear slaughterbots
2019-02-01: Future of Life Institute on Autonomous Weapons Ban
2019-02-01: Lethal autonomous drones
2019-02-01: China's Propaganda App (Minitrue comes true?)
2019-02-04: Good data possible?
2019-02-04: Harvard does ethics
2019-02-05: Crimes and misdemeanors in the age of automation
2019-02-06: Achieving and maintaining cyberspace superiority
2019-02-06: Security researcher assaulted over vulnerability disclosure
2019-02-06: Money machines
2019-02-06: Moral decision making tested
2019-02-13: IBM Debater loses to Harish Natarajan
2019-02-13: AI debates Human
2019-02-13: AI debates Human (Vox)
2019-02-13: The CRISPR machines that can wipe out entire species
2019-02-14: Self driving vehicles might have different priorities
2019-02-14: The ethics of soma in the 21st century
2019-02-14: Humane technology?
2019-02-14: Humane technology in (re)action?
2019-02-14: Machine gets high marks for diagnosing sick children
2019-02-14: Google CAPTCHA's woes
2019-02-14: Has Google began censoring Russian search results?
2019-02-14: How to fight the surveillance economy
2019-02-14: This person does not exist (GANs at work)
2019-02-18: Ethics in action? Researchers, scared by their own work, hold back "deepfakes for text" AI
2019-02-18: How OpenAI's deepfake technology works
2019-02-18: Digital ethics concerns for Parliament?
2019-02-20: Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations
2019-02-20: Farming robot revolution beckons new age of agriculture technology
2019-02-20: Prepare for the rise of the farm bots
2019-02-22: Patent Exhaustion
2019-02-27: Computer Software (reasonably early discussion of personal agents and AI)
2019-03-04: Is ethical AI even possible?
2019-03-04: Older work on hoax detection
2019-03-04: Project Maven and Google
2019-03-06: Cybersecurity firm Darkmatter request to be trusted root CA raises concerns
2019-03-06: Surveillance firm asks Mozilla to be included in Firefox's certificate whitelist
2019-03-06: Cyber-mercenary groups should not be trusted in your browser or anywhere else
2019-03-06: What's the purpose of humanity if machines can learn ingenuity?
2019-03-07: AI "creates" art: who gets the credit?
2019-03-07: Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
2019-03-07: New Work Summit Questions
2019-03-11: The world's first robot "citizen"
2019-03-14: Copyright in the age of Open Access (FSU content)
2019-03-14: Japan's government white paper on AI and the ethics of its interaction with humans
2019-03-28: Barking drones replace sheep dogs
2019-03-28: Robot picks apples
2019-03-29: Edward Snowden: national security whistleblowing and civil disobedience
2019-04-01: April 1st? AI start-up has found a new source of cheap labor
2019-04-05: How China turned a city into a prison
2019-04-08: Camera above the classroom
2019-04-10: Australia's new social media law
2019-04-10: The age of robot farmers
2019-04-10: Apple Music censors songs in China
2019-04-11: Automating Ethics
2019-04-12: Feeling Safe in the Surveillance State
2019-04-15: Police Sock Puppets (related link: It's legal to do so
2019-04-17: Facial recognition in New York City
2019-04-17: Cyberinsurance?
2019-04-22: US wants to use facial recognition on air travelers leaving the country
2019-04-22: Can science writing be automated?
2019-04-24: Made in China, Exported to the World: The Surveillance State
2019-04-23: Facial recognition creeps up on a JetBlue passenger and she hates it
2019-04-24: Cameras help targeted advertising
2019-04-24: G7 wants to tame the Internet
2019-04-25: How artificial intelligence systems could threaten democracy
2019-04-26: AXON products and ethical development
2019-04-26: Patent application 0180121738: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLEMENTING CAPTURED DATA
2019-04-26: Body cameras with facial recognition
2019-05-15: Will China Export Its Illiberal Innovation?
2019-05-15: Life inside China's total surveillance state
2019-05-17: China's Algorithms of Repression
2019-05-20: America Under Watch
2019-05-20: 10 Rules for mission critical code
2019-05-22: Self driving trucks will carry mail in the U.S. for the first time
2019-05-22: Social Credit System to Restore Morality
2019-05-22: FSU Board of Trustees Code of Ethics
2019-05-24: Theresa May reprise King Canute
2019-05-24: Privacy and technoloyg companies
2019-05-24: Amazon is working on a weable device to read human emotions
2019-05-29: On Technological Liberty
2019-05-29: The challenge of crafting intelligible intelligence
2019-05-30: AI in action: Who is to blame?
2019-05-30: Drones autonomity extends to weapon systems?
2019-05-31: Gaming Disorder
2019-05-31: The web goes ethical?
2019-05-31: The WEF wants to develop global rules for AI
2019-05-31: AI Ethics Boards?
2019-06-05: Tesla and software developlment
2019-06-07: Airline privacy
2019-06-10: Does China suddenly care about AI ethics and privacy?
2019-06-14: I used to work for Google. I am a conscientious objector.
2019-06-14: Robot surveillance
2019-06-19: Boeing allegedly to make changes in physical testing regimen
2019-06-28: Second U.S. City Bans Facial Recognition Technology
2019-06-28: Second Florida City Pays Hackers, Third Faces Breach
2019-07-08: Welcome to the K-12 Surveillance State
2019-07-08: The Ramanujan Machine
2019-07-08: Soon, satellites will be able to watch you everywhere, all of the time
2019-07-09: Firms that promise high-tech ransomware solutions almost always just pay the hackers
2019-07-10: An experiment in human generosity
2019-07-11: Brainco
2019-07-11: Brainco brags
2019-07-11: Brainco in the schools: "Chinese parents want students to wear brainwave detecting headbands"
2019-07-11: NASA spinoff: Brainwaves and Brainco
2019-07-12: AI plays poker
2019-07-12: The surveillance trade
2019-07-12: The surveillance trade, part 2
2019-07-12: Delhi rolls out massive surveillance network
2019-07-16: How WeChat Censors Private Conversations Automatically in Real Time
2019-07-19: Kazakhstan does MITM
2019-07-19: Kazakhstan does MITM
2019-07-19: Kazakhstan and human rights
2019-07-19: Ban Facial Recognition
2019-07-19: The next generation of programming tools
2019-07-19: Asia's AI Agenda: The ethics of AI
2019-07-19: The moral side of cloud-based data science
2019-07-22: Kazhakstan in the news
2019-07-24: Facial recognition legislation proposed in U.S. Congress
2019-07-24: A controversial artwork created by AI has sold for $435,000
2019-07-24: Augmentation in the world of software development
2019-07-25: The Brains for tomorrow's AI?
2019-07-25: Intel's neuromorphic machinery
2019-07-29: Facebook and encryption
2019-12-25: AI Built-in to Nuclear Response?
2019-12-25: AI Built-in to Nuclear Response?
2019-12-25: Vice on Political Repression of the Uighur : Dystopia
2020-01-07: Teenagers without cell phones
2020-01-07: Export rules for geospatial imagery software
2020-01-08: Technology will soon give us precise control over our brains and genes
2020-01-08: Should colleges really be putting smart speakers in dorms?
2020-01-08: OMB Memo on AI Regulation
2020-01-08: Summary of above AI regulation memo
2020-01-09: Personalized information for the masses
2020-01-09: Ethics of technology needs more political philosophy
2020-01-09: Can AI own intellectual property?
2020-01-10: Hong Kong's discussion of smart lamppost technology
2020-01-10: The Invention of "Ethical AI"
2020-01-10: How does a new generation of researchers perceive Sci-Hub?
2020-01-10: Vigilant Solutions
2020-01-10: Chinese court rules that AI written articles are copyright protected
2020-01-13: Colleges are turning students' phones into surveillance machines
2020-01-13: Moffitt Cancer Center CEO, Center Director resign after compliance review
2020-01-13: Florida Joins Government Probing Foreign Ties of Researchers
2020-01-13: Senate Report: Threats to the U.S. Research Enterprise: China's Talent Recruitment Plans
2020-01-13: Can a machine learn to write for the New Yorker?
2020-01-14: Scientists build first living robots
2020-01-15: Scalable living machines
2020-01-22: With Great Tech Comes Great Responsibilities
2020-01-22: Just four years ago, we thought that humans would still control the battlefield of autonomous weapons
2020-01-22: Hypersonic Missiles
2020-01-22: Hypersonic Missiles
2020-01-22: Clearview, privacy, and facial recognition
2020-01-22: Fight over facial recognition dividing Detroit
2020-01-24: An ethical futuore for brain organoids takes shape
2020-01-27: This is how a popular free antivirus program sells your data
2020-01-29: How the world's largest democracy shuts down the Internet
2020-01-31: An honorable mention for the Uehiro Prize 2020: Should we take moral advice from our computers?
2020-01-31: More on the question about "Could it happen here?" raised on Wednesday
2020-01-31: UK police will soon be able to search through U.S. data without asking a judge
2020-01-31: Foreign police want to bypass privacy lawans and courts by getting data from abroad
2020-02-03: California Privacy Notice
2020-02-10: Free email apps spy on you
2020-02-10: PLA personnel charged with Equifax hacking
2020-02-10: Crypto AG was actually the CIA
2020-02-13: ICE contract and Github: Some developers protest
2020-02-13: Huawei and spying access
2020-02-14: North Korea Cryptocurrency Mining
2020-02-14: Handshake network reprises DNS
2020-02-17: China's Surveillance State in December 2019
2020-02-21: UCLA and facial recognition
2020-02-21: UCLA cancels on campus facial recognition?
2020-02-21: UCLA and other schools
2020-02-21: Pan-european police facial recognition database
2020-02-24: United States Constitution
2020-02-24: North Korea's ultra-secretive ways can make the regime easier to track online
2020-02-26: Surveillance-style shopping
2020-02-26: Big Data Provides Personalized Pricing
2020-02-26: Personalized Pricing in Action
2020-02-26: Personalized medicine?
2020-02-27: Personalized traffic fines
2020-02-27: Facial recognition and the benefits and costs of personalized surveillance
2020-02-27: London police go to live facial recognition
2020-03-02: Let's Encrypt Issues Billionth Certificate Today
2020-03-02: Facial recognition turned upside down
2020-03-02: Rome Call for AI Ethics
2020-03-04: Coronavirus detecting CCTV cameras coming to UK workplaces
2020-03-04: Mastercard is pioneering new payment technology
2020-03-06: Clearview AI has a history
2020-03-06: Landmark proof in computer science
2020-03-22: China coronavirus surveillance
2020-03-31: Zoom is facing question about how private or secure it really is
2020-03-31: Zoom's privacy problems are growing as platform explodes in popularity
2020-03-31: Coronavirus: countries tracking citizen's phones
2020-03-31: Coronavirus: United States and phone location data
2020-03-31: Coronavirus: UK and phone tracking
2020-04-03: Google's mobility reports website
2020-04-03: Google's March 29th mobility report for the state of Florida
2020-04-07: EFF: Governments' not-so-secret plan to scan every message online
2020-04-07: Senator backing anti-crypto bill calls out Zoom's lack of end-to-end crypto
2020-04-08: Japan looks to protect intellectual property in Wagyu beef cattle
2020-04-08: Deepmind's AI 57 learns to play 57 Atari games
2020-04-08: Trustworthy AI is a frame to help manage unique risk
2020-04-15: How Apple and Goole are tacking their covide privacy problem
2020-04-15: How to manage a pandemic
2020-04-15: MIT gets into the act with PACT
2020-04-15: Contact tracing in the real world
2020-04-15: EFF: The challenge of proximity apps for COVID-19 contact tracing
2020-04-15: ACLU: Limits of location tracking in an epidemic
2020-04-22: The meaning of money: How the pandemic makes the case for "public Venmo"
2020-04-22: Ring cameras may someday scan license plates and faces as leak of new surveillance features reveals
2020-04-22: We need a law to save us from dystopia