Ethics

There are concerns about the representation of vulnerable and underrepresented racial-ethnic minorities in biomedical and public health research, ...

Sex differences in associations of adiposity measures and insulin resistance in US Hispanic/Latino youth: the Hispanic community children’s health Study/Study of Latino youth (sol youth). The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. [37](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR37), [53](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR53), [54](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR54)]. [37](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR37)] of critical ethnography [ [38](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR38)] and multiple case study approach [ [39](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR39)] to explore how Latinx families along the Southwestern borderlands, could affect their desire or hesitation to participate in a study collecting saliva specimens. If the head of household was concerned about storing their saliva samples in their family’s refrigerator, we provided them an additional resealable bag to provide a barrier between their samples and their food shelves. One of the most important reasons why the research team was able to overcome families’ concerns about participating in our study, was our ability to communicate about the research not only in a language that was comfortable for this community, but because we were a female, multicultural and bilingual team. We also told the families and their children how to exit from the study if at any time they wanted to withdraw (or any study for that matter). We obtained consent from the head of household first by describing the consent form to them in their preferred language (English/Spanish). We met with each family at least three times: 1) the first to describe the study and schedule a time when all family members would be available to participate in the study, 2) the second to obtain consent and assent and collect data from each family member, and 3) the third to retrieve additional saliva samples and clarify any remaining questions. Despite unauthorized immigrants’ vulnerability, we should approach unauthorized immigrants and their family members as simultaneously capable and competent to avoid further marginalizing and disempowering them in the research encounter [ [14](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR14), [33](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR33)]. [32](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR32), [36](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR36)] demonstrate the feasibility of collecting salivary biospecimens from Latinx migrant farmworker populations, they do not distinguish experiences between authorized and unauthorized immigrants and those persons in mixed-status families living in an urban area with high immigration enforcement. [22](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR22)] and pediatric obesity, [ [23](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR23)] youth metabolic syndrome [ [24](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR24), [25](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR25)], and prediabetes [ [26](/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13903-5#ref-CR26)] in the United States.

Your smartwatch provides recommendations on everything from breathing to exercise - and as technology races forward - will know not just your heart rate but ...

- AI and Weapons. [Studies have shown that just one training of a large language AI model consumes as much energy as five cars in their lifetime](https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/06/239031/training-a-single-ai-model-can-emit-as-much-carbon-as-five-cars-in-their-lifetimes/)(and these models do not just train once - they retrain many many times). Will the larger economies amass so much AI knowledge and dataset resources that it will create yet another gap? A recent study showed that AI’s creation abilities are not limited to art and poetry. - The AI technology race. The last decade of AI has demonstrated that personal data can be used for everything from recommending books to detecting diseases. AI Ethics is the field of determining how to use such technology responsibly. You get up in the morning and an AI tells you that traffic to work is heavy this AM. [mpower individuals to control how corporations use private data](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_explanation). Behind the scenes, AIs are able to evaluate your health, your work history, your credit rating, and more. The problem is that fairness itself is a subjective concept that humans do not agree on. The value of such innovation is clear, but the risk less so.

The AI revolution has already started, and business, academia and government need to act together now to prevent harm. Human hand touching with cybernetics ...

If we want a future consonant with our values, we need to address this problem now, together, with every asset at our disposal. Given the projected long-term capabilities of AI, ensuring its ethical use is paramount to the safety and security of the global community. We supported efforts to combat sexual assault and sexual harrassment within the ranks at the Department of Defense. Make no mistake: Devising a globally accepted set of AI principles and convincing private and public institutions to adopt it will be a heavy lift. If we do not come together now to address these challenges, the consequences will be devastating for our nation and societies worldwide. They were politically sensitive, divisive and required a whole-of-community approach to develop solutions that addressed the root causes of each problem. No one group will have the answer, and no singular entity will know what is in the best interest of society regarding a technology with potential that rivals — and perhaps exceeds — any yet developed in human history. We find ourselves on the doorstep of the next great societal challenge: harnessing the benefits of artificial intelligence while also ensuring it is used ethically and responsibly. We rethought the future of passenger screening at the Department of Homeland Security. They represent issues of generational concern that require both great debate and an enormous amount of collaboration between the public and private sectors. We saw it with the train and the automobile. And now we are seeing it with artificial intelligence.

Cricket Australia (CA) has appointed Simon Longstaff as its inaugural ethics commissioner, four years after he led a scathing review of the board's culture ...

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As technology progresses, business leaders understand the need to adopt enterprise solutions leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, there's ...

We have committed to our ethical principles, and we hope that other technology firms do as well. Because of this, it is important for AI developers to examine the data they will be using in depth from the genesis of their project when creating a new AI system. In other words, we do tests to figure out where our model might be lacking in training data and then we augment datasets in those areas so that we are continuously improving when it comes to debiasing. One major source of bias in AI models is the data developers start with. Today, businesses are crossing the chasm in AI adoption. Organizations should think clearly about AI ethics and promote strategies to limit bias, such as periodic reviews of what data is used and why. Technology organizations should openly examine what the purpose of an AI model is to determine whether that purpose is ethical. [AI ethics](https://venturebeat.com/datadecisionmakers/building-responsible-ai-5-pillars-for-an-ethical-future/) research aiming to understand the inherent characteristics of AI models as a result of certain development practices and their potential risks. In other words, the central purpose of an AI model may in itself be a red flag. This is done by focusing on AI ethics and demanding that AI be used in an ethical manner. In the end, we’re all subject to a variety of sociological and cognitive biases. They’re tools built by humans and may maintain or amplify whatever biases exist in the humans who develop them or those who create the data used to train and evaluate them.

Michael Irene is a data and information governance practitioner based in London, United Kingdom. He is also a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK, ...

This is to highlight for stakeholders to consider and use in accordance to the structure of their business operations or projects. The reason being that most companies have not been able to think about the regulatory implications and the excessive intrusiveness this presents when it comes to the use of data and manifestation in artificial intelligence. commits to publishing a diversity of views, opinions and comments. With that in mind, I propose a simple 7-step approach when it comes to ensuring that ethics and data usage are well merged to produce the right results. But there is always the question of how ethical is the procedure? What are the policies, who will implement access controls, what are the acceptable use policies, what are the retention and deletion protocols?

The first recommendation of Longstaff's 2018 review was for CA to set up an ethics commission to hold administrators, players and staff accountable to the ...

"Having led the 2018 review, Dr Longstaff has a detailed understanding of the challenges the game has faced and the progress that has been made in recent times. CA, in its response to the review, said it supported the recommendation and would appoint an independent ethics commissioner with direct access to the chair and board. [Australia](/news?tag=Australia) (CA) has appointed Simon Longstaff as its inaugural ethics commissioner, four years after he led a scathing review of the board's culture in the wake of the Newlands ball-tampering scandal.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Cricket Australia (CA) has appointed Simon Longstaff as its inaugural ethics commissioner, four years after he led a scathing review ...

“Having led the 2018 review, Dr Longstaff has a detailed understanding of the challenges the game has faced and the progress that has been made in recent times. “The CA board and our state and territory colleagues are committed to improving governance structures in cricket and the ethics commissioner will provide a vital reference point for issues that impact CA and the game more broadly,” CA chair Lachlan Henderson said in a statement. The first recommendation of Longstaff’s 2018 review was for CA to set up an ethics commission to hold administrators, players and staff accountable to the “ethical foundations for the game as played in Australia”.

Simon Longstaff, who led the 2018 review of the culture of Australian cricket, has been appointed the organisation's first ethics commissioner.

We look forward to working with him for the betterment of cricket." This will include, but is not limited to matters of administration, governance, transparency and on or off-field behaviour. The first recommendation of Longstaff's review was for CA to set up an ethics commission to hold administrators, players and staff accountable to the "ethical foundations for the game as played in Australia".

Cricket Australia has appointed Simon Longstaff as the first ever Ethics Commissioner to oversee board and player accountability.

Longstaff had lambasted the board’s culture in a review and offered 42 recommendations to overcome those flaws. “The CA board and our state and territory colleagues are committed to improving governance structures in cricket and the ethics commissioner will provide a vital reference point for issues that impact CA and the game more broadly,” CA chair Lachlan Henderson said in a statement. Setting up an ethics commission was the very first recommendation of Longstaff’s 2018 review in order to hold administrators, players and staff accountable to the “ethical foundations for the game as played in Australia”.

Melbourne, Sep 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a first, Cricket Australia (CA) on Tuesday appointed Simon Longstaff as an independent ethics commissioner, ...

Longstaff had become the first exdcutive Director of The Ethics Centre in 1991 and has experience in providing advice on ethics to professional organisations. "CA has actioned the majority of recommendations of this report and Dr Longstaff's pivotal role in the review makes him an ideal candidate to take up this position. We look forward to working with him for the betterment of cricket," he added. Gopi Adusumilli is a Programmer. In 2013 he was awarded the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to the community through the promotion of ethical standards in governance and business, to improving corporate responsibility, and to philosophy." "The CA Board and our State and Territory colleagues are committed to improving governance structures in cricket and the Ethics Commissioner will provide a vital reference point for issues that impact CA and the game more broadly.

Written by Mette Leonard Høeg At the What's the Point of Moral Philosophy congress held at the University of Oxford this summer, there was near-consensus ...

Indeed, positive critical judgements and valuations of literature often rely on precisely an appreciation of the uncertainty of meaning and its effect of stimulating bewilderment. I say ‘undecidability’ rather than ‘indeterminacy’ because I am interested more in relations of force, in differences of force, in everything that allows, precisely, determinations in given situations to be stabilized through a decision of writing (in the broad sense I give to this word, which also includes political action and experience in general). Derrida presents undecidability as a restricted form of uncertainty, contrasting it to the notion of indeterminacy in order to refute the accusation that deconstruction leads to relativism of meaning. It is important in this context also to stress the value of diversity in forms of communication in philosophy. But the 20th century saw a new awareness of the uncertainty of the physical world and human existence. ‘Meaning’ and truth can, then, be conceptualised not as single, fixated and decidable, but as phenomena in a relatively open space of uncertainty and possibility. It can facilitate a deeper involvement of the reader with the philosophical content of a text and make the reader move from a non-reflective to a reflective and critical mode of reading and thinking, create meta-awareness about interpretational choices and the readerly inference and co-production of meaning. The attempt to determine meaning comes from a perceived need for it and of a sense of a preceding unclarity. the meaning and purpose as well as tasks and aims of academic philosophy – generally speaking, in the specific cultural environment of today and in the future. The uncertainty and obscurity of reality is in a sense a precondition for any meaningful utterance, a prerequisite for any attempt at stabilising and fixating meaning in a system of thought, with concepts and language. As such it was part of a sympathetic effort to take responsibility for making philosophy accessible and effective and for disseminating the insights and advances in research in the academic sphere to the broader public as well as to policy makers in the best, most fruitful ways. At the What’s the Point of Moral Philosophy congress held at the University of Oxford this summer, there was near-consensus among the gathered philosophers that clarity in moral philosophy and practical ethics is per definition good and obscurity necessarily bad.

It also shows that some of the political players (notably Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate GOP leader Rob Ortt and Attorney General Tish James) aren't ...