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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 ...

DEC 16, 2021 Journal

Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities

The constitution of political community in the aftermath of colonialism was the foremost challenge for postcolonial leaders who had been shaped by anti-colonial struggles premised ...