Engineered Foods
In the early 1900s, the chemist Fritz Haber combined atmospheric nitrogen with hydrogen, making ammonia, a revolutionary synthetic fertilizer. Crop yields exploded on account of this innovation, and millions were saved from famine. Since then, the technological modification of foods has rapidly become a normality. Flash forward to the 2000s, foods are bioengineered to a degree that one must question whether it really is beneficial. As ethical thinkers, we must concern ourselv
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AI Generated Music
The song “ Walk my Walk ” by the AI musician Breaking Rust became the first AI generated song to top a Billboard chart. This revolutionary accomplishment signals the rapidly growing potential of AI in the music industry but concerns many artists, many of whom spent years mastering their craft. An average person with no musical talent can now create a song indistinguishable from an authentic song in minutes. Check out this video to see the similarity between AI generated a
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AI Deepfakes
In today’s technology driven age, truth becomes increasingly separated from appearances. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Deep faking technologies pose the greatest threat to truth as we know it online. Several emergent technologies in 2014 and 2015 built the foundations for deepfakes: they were autoencoders and generative adversarial networks. Autoencoders enabled technologies to compress a face into a latent representation and reconstruct it with high accuracy. This meant that
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Three Tips to Secure Your Privacy When Using AI
In our previous blog we discussed the current state of AI users’ privacy as well as the ethical implications and need for security. This...
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Are Your Conversations With AI Private?
Generations of all ages increasingly adopt and use artificial intelligence technology for a range of purposes: quick research, studying,...
Aug 9, 20252 min read
Protecting Yourself Against Cyber Fraud
One of the most common scams is called a phishing scam. This scam is characterized by its use of social manipulation to gain access to...
Aug 4, 20254 min read
Unpacking The Ethics of Cyber Fraud
Before we explore the types of cybercriminals and their methods, we must first examine the ethical foundation and principles which anchor...
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