Topic: Ethics
AI, Asked for Life Advice for Young Adults, Doesn’t Just Echo What Humans Recommend
Left unsaid: The bot wasn’t very confident in its own advice
Diversity Initiatives, Under Political Attack, Need a New Training Regimen
Researchers recommend eliciting and acknowledging the fears some employees have, but no retreat from DEI goals
How Prisons, Very Much Like Nursing Homes, Helped Spread COVID Beyond Their Walls
After a botched inmate transfer, San Quentin guards carried the virus back to their neighborhoods
To Survive Global Warming, Company Operations Adapt — But Do Those Changes Make Things Worse?
Businesses need research to guide adaptation beyond quick ‘maladaptive’ fixes and toward long-term resilience
A Guide for Companies That Want to Restore Credibility to Climate Disclosures
Identify and come clean about the layered uncertainties, both in measurement and in outcomes
Unintentionally, EU Data Protections Impede Development of New Medicines
That’s bad for patients, who’re the citizens the privacy law means to help
Is Telling the World of Your Success Worth Five Times Your Private Knowledge of It?
The difficulties of study design in a braggy culture where few readily admit to bragging
Closely Held Political Beliefs Often Immune to Conflicting Information – Even From Trusted Sources
People say they’d change their minds, but they mostly don’t
Institutions Make Mistakes: Which Should We Seek to Prevent; Which Ought We Fix After the Fact?
In experiments, people endorsed seemingly harsh policies — only to reverse course after the fact
Consumer Backlash to CEO Advocacy: Signaling or Act of Conscience?
An experiment seeks to isolate motivation and raises concerns for outspoken corporate leaders
Populism’s Rise in U.S. Isn’t Only About Anger
2016 vote shares for Trump and Sanders point to a mix of negative emotions
Smartphone Records Reveal Racial Disparities in Neighborhood Policing
Police patrol Black areas more frequently than others with similar homicide rates and income levels
Removing Words With Gender Bias in Job Ads: More Diverse Applicants
Women — and some men — more inclined to apply for positions
Experts Struggle to Accurately Forecast Societal Change
On COVID-19’s impacts, social scientists’ predictions weren’t much better than those of laypeople
‘They Were Already Inside My Head To Begin With’
The ethics of asking brain surgery patients to allow unrelated research while on the operating table