Recent Articles
FEB 3, 2022 • Article
Mapping AI & Equality, Part 3: AI’s role in altering the human condition and what it means to be human
The current AI discourse revolves around a core question: Will the human condition be improved through AI, or will AI transform the human condition in ...
JAN 28, 2022 • Journal Online Exclusive
Ethical Fandom in an Era of State-Owned Teams: The Case of Newcastle United
Many sports teams are owned by individuals and companies that engage in legally and morally dubious activities. For players and for fans, it is important ...
JAN 27, 2022 • Article
Mapping AI & Equality, Part 2: Defining AI & Equality
Artificial Intelligence is a contested term. Generally, it refers to the simulation of human cognitive capabilities (discrete forms of intelligence) by machines. However, there has ...
JAN 27, 2022 • Article
If “trust is a must,” three practical things that AI regulators need to do
“On artificial intelligence, trust is a must, not a nice-to-have,” proclaimed Margrethe Vestager, the European Commission’s digital chief, in a statement launching the long-awaited ...
JAN 20, 2022 • Article
Mapping AI & Equality, Part 1: Navigating the promise and peril of technological innovation
In mapping AI and equality, it is helpful to develop broad categories that highlight distinct trajectories showing how AI impacts people and their relationships with ...
JAN 6, 2022 • Article
One Year After the January 6 Insurrection, Democracy Needs a Rallying Cry
On the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, groups across society are increasingly worried about the state of democracy. But as the pressure on democracy ...
DEC 23, 2021 • Article
Ethics and Fairness in AI: Who Makes the Rules
In a September 2021 talk at Sparks! The Serendipity Forum at CERN, Anja Kaspersen, senior fellow for Carnegie Council’s Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative (AIEI), discusses ...
DEC 16, 2021 • Journal Online Exclusive
EIA Winter 2021 Issue--Out Now!
The editors of Ethics & International Affairs are pleased to present the Winter 2021 issue of the journal! The issue looks at the territorial states-system, the ethics ...
DEC 16, 2021 • Journal
A Magna Carta for Children? Rethinking Children’s Rights
Children’s rights present a unique challenge. On the one hand, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the most widely ...
DEC 16, 2021 • Journal
New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives
Written for a general audience, Alex de Waal’s New Pandemics, Old Politics explores why in the twenty-first century responses to infectious disease outbreaks and ...