AI Ethics & Policy

By: Alex Cline, Alice Helliwell, Brian Ball, David Freeborn and Kevin Loi-Heng Project supported by the Ethics Institute, the Internet Democracy Initiative and NULab, at Northeastern University What can computational methods–particularly artificial intelligence (AI)–tell us about AI ethics? We are a group of researchers who have become intrigued by what such methods can add to […]

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