Technology & Ethics
The Machine and the Mirror
Exploring how our creations reflect our values, choices, and responsibilities.
Synthetic Voices, Real Consequences
Not long ago, a scammer needed a convincing email or a stolen credit card number. Today, they may only need…
Passwordless, Priceless? The Hidden Risks of a Biometric Internet
For decades, the humble password has been the gatekeeper of our digital lives. Clumsy though it was—reused, forgotten, scribbled on…
Trial by Algorithm: Who Gets Care When AI Triage Sets the Rules
In hospitals around the world, triage has long been the most human of judgments. A nurse in an emergency department…
The Global South’s Hidden Vaccine Innovation Hubs
When the world thinks of vaccine breakthroughs, the mental map tends to orient northward—to gleaming laboratories in Boston, Basel, or…
Biometric Borders: The Future of Travel or the End of Freedom?
At a growing number of airports, your face is now your boarding pass. A quick scan, a green light, and…
Algorithmic Borders: The Rise of Digital Immigration Control
The first checkpoint may no longer be a uniformed officer with a passport stamp. Increasingly, it is a silent algorithm,…
The Ethics of Predictive Health: How Early is Too Early to Act?
When Sofia’s genetic test results arrived, they contained a number that would change her life: an 87% likelihood of developing…
When AI Diagnoses Before the Doctor: Who Owns the Patient’s Trust?
It starts quietly, almost invisibly: a wristwatch alert about an irregular heartbeat, a phone notification flagging suspicious moles, a pop-up…
Data Colonialism: How Big Tech is Redrawing the Map
In the 19th century, colonial powers carved the world into territories, extracting resources and imposing borders that served distant capitals….