This article discusses the ethical and moral issues related to artificial intelligence in the area of people and machines. One of these issues has to do with the issue of those in poverty who are denied a job because of the advances in technology. So the stakeholders include common people (especially the poor), manufacturers of AI, the designers of them and the businesses that use them. AI can be used virtually anywhere from factories to game shows and that threatens the role of some human beings. Some robots take the place of doing simple jobs but those who can't afford an education, in a way need those jobs. Many of the poor don't have the right education to suddenly become technicians for the robots that replaced them so they're out of jobs. There is also the issue of how to create a robot that mimics a human being. This creates issues because all of us have different ethical and religious standings, creating a robot to mimic us would create more issues in the human world because it would be going against some and supporting others. But if someone was trying to create the perfect human then it would be God-like and that would be an issue in itself.

This article is about a man who received spreadsheets and documents from a newspaper company that was not supposed to be sent to him but to an employee who had a similar name. The typo problem had caused a security issue to arise. The stakeholders include: the employee who sent the message, the man who received them and the company. The employee might have to be repremanded if the writer of the article were to use this information against them. In the same respect, the company would be in trouble if this information was very private and it we released to the general public. The fact is that the security of using googledocs is questionable if users are not careful.

This article is about how people are fearing that they will lose their jobs to people in other countries like many have before them. Big companies are choosing to hire those in places like India and China because it turns out cheaper for them. A report says that 2-3% of jobs in IT would go offshore annually over the next 10 years or so. This report is also trying to calm workers by saying that more jobs will arise from this. For people losing their jobs and those in the field of information technology, this news is not comforting. The president of the Association for Computing Machinery, David A. Patterson, noted that not many people are interested in majoring in computer science in the US so it makes things harder for there to be jobs for them. If more were to take an interest in the computer sciences then there might not be a big issue about offshoring jobs.

The article I read was about the United States government using social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace to do investigation on people and catch criminals. Though it may be helpful for the government it brings up privacy issues since the government is in fact surveiling the U.S. population. There was a lawsuit against the government was in fear that the government would abuse the use of social networks. From the perspective of the US government, using Facebook and Myspace is a very beneficial thing because they are able to catch more criminals and it's a lot easier than sitting around and waiting. For the US population they feel violated and anxious because what would stop the government from investigting on anyone they want? This is not just happening in the US, it's also in the UK.

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health issues from cell phone usage

"Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), have turned a smart phone into an imaging device that can identify and track diseases."

This about the production of a silicon cell phone.