Ethical concerns regarding modern technology seem to show up everywhere. These issues give rise to questions about whether industry is ready to face the challenges associated with AI and how ethical considerations can be implemented in the day-to-day workflow at technology companies.

Surveillance is happening all around us all the time. Businesses, governments, and nonstate actors are gathering information — whether it’s to sell us something on social media or screen us when we apply for a home loan. University of Texas at Austin and New York University researchers participated in a Good Systems panel last month where they discussed various types of surveillance and how this practice is sometimes obvious but also elusive.

Whole Communities–Whole Health hosts its first ever research showcase, highlighting the important work we've been doing the last two years.

Last year, Maria De-Arteaga joined the McCombs School of Business faculty as an assistant professor in the Information, Risk and Operations Management Department. During her Ph.D., she became increasingly concerned about the risk of overburdening or underserving historically marginalized populations through the application of machine learning. She's now devoted her career to understanding the risks and opportunities of using ML to support decision-making in high-stakes settings.

Robots are roaming the UT campus this week delivering free lemonade. It's part of a Good Systems project to create ethical artificial intelligence that successfully integrates with humans in real world settings.

This week, at the UT campus, two robots will roam the 40 Acres delivering free lemonade to those with a university email who order via the “Texas Botler” app. It’s part of the university’s New Autonomous Delivery System or SMADS project through Good Systems.

A group of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, including several affiliated with Good Systems, are exploring what influences trust in health information about COVID-19, hoping to help with public health messaging about how to minimize the spread of the virus.

The School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin is pleased to partner with Good Systems, a UT Grand Challenge, Huston-Tillotson University, and government and community organizations in Austin for the Public Interest Technology University Network Social Justice Informatics Faculty Fellows Program. This city-wide collaborative effort will bring together faculty fellows with diverse expertise in social justice and public interest technology who will partner with local organizations, producing collaborative cross-institutional research teams working toward achieving social justice in Austin.

University of Texas at Austin researchers are in the middle of a study looking at where people get their health information, specifically on COVID-19, and if they trust it to be true. Findings show older adults had more accurate, factual information about COVID-19 than the younger adults did — to a significant level.

To protect ourselves and others during the COVID-19 pandemic, most of us have had to shift our everyday lives to our homes. This has led to a steep drop in the amount of physical activity our kids are getting.