In late 2017, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) adopted a “Statement on Scientific Freedom & Responsibility”: Scientific freedom and scientific responsibility are ...

My colleagues and I at Purdue University have uncovered a significant imbalance in the human values embedded in AI systems. The systems were predominantly oriented toward information and utility ...

Many of the challenges we address here were evident to the pioneers of medical decision analysis of the 1950s 7 and to scholars in subsequent decades 8-11 who conducted careful and creative studies of ...

In the quest for knowledge, science often prides itself on objectivity and empirical evidence. It is often contrasted with lived experience, which is defined as innately subjective and clearly in ...

In a recent review article published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers review how human values can be incorporated into emerging artificial intelligence (AI)-based large language ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a recent discovery about ...

Many years ago, I learned to program on an old Symbolics Lisp Machine. The operating system had a built-in command spelled “DWIM,” short for “Do What I Mean.” If I typed a command and got an error, I ...

The Science and Human Rights program highlights the role chemistry plays to address global human rights issues. ACS directs its efforts to raise awareness about the rights and welfare of chemistry ...

As social creatures, human beings have lives shaped by the quality of their relationships and support systems, food systems, community health resources and basic needs. Learn how individuals, public ...