An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety involving familial financial connections.

(Published July 2024)
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Many Judges Don't Recuse in Cases Involving Their Families’ Interests

Ambiguous — and unenforced — recusal standards mean few checks and balances for top judges when cases involve their family members.

^ProPublica

How embarrassingly ironic that we let a minuscule minority of #sociopaths destroy the habitability of our #planet in their quest to profit from machines that think better than we do -- when the most important moral, ethical, and subjective questions can't be answered by machines because they mimic the sociopaths that built them.

#Morality #Ethics #Subjectivity #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #AI #uspol #QuantumComputing

"Event organizer Kelly McBride, senior vice president and chair of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership at Poynter, said the hackathon was born out of Poynter’s desire to help journalists flex their intellectual muscles as they consider AI’s ethical implications."

https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2024/the-assignment-build-ai-tools-for-journalists-and-make-ethics-job-one/

#ai #journalism #ethics

The assignment: Build AI tools for journalists – and make ethics job one - Poynter

A recent Poynter Summit on AI, Ethics and Journalism challenged leaders to dream big and solve ethical challenges

^{Barbara Allen (The Poynter Institute)}