{"title":"The Role of Public Policy in the Adoption of Prosthetic Limbs in the United States","authors":"Carolena Stephanie Larson;Muhammad Salar Khan","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2023.3306531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3306531","url":null,"abstract":"In the United States, approximately 2 million people live with limb loss \u0000<xref>[1]</xref>\u0000 and that number is expected to double by 2050 \u0000<xref>[2]</xref>\u0000. Although this is a significant figure, it still does not represent a substantial market size for the private sector to develop prosthetics for this population. Mobility is highly crucial for long-term health \u0000<xref>[3]</xref>\u0000, \u0000<xref>[4]</xref>\u0000, \u0000<xref>[5]</xref>\u0000, \u0000<xref>[6]</xref>\u0000, and prosthetic limbs are vital in restoring mobility. Undoubtedly, people with limb loss are among the most vulnerable segments of society. Therefore, we contend that their safety and care should be a high priority for the government. In this article, we recap the public policy landscape surrounding prosthetic limbs in the United States before proposing ways to increase access and adoption of prosthetic limbs.","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/44/10260710/10260734.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50323961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversity Initiatives for Women in IT: Friends or Enemies?","authors":"Andreea Molnar;Dorian Stoilescu","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2023.3306526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3306526","url":null,"abstract":"Women are still unrepresented in information technology (IT) jobs, and the overall low number of women in these fields in the United States, Canada, European Union, New Zealand, and Australia has been well documented. The situation is even more grim when focusing on women in computing subfields \u0000<xref>[1]</xref>\u0000. As this difference cannot be explained by genetic differences or innate aptitudes \u0000<xref>[2]</xref>\u0000, there has been an increased interest over the years in looking for solutions to increase women entering the field and retaining them.","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/44/10260710/10260730.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50323963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Navigating the Ethical Landscape of AI in Healthcare: Insights From a Content Analysis","authors":"Yin Wu;Xiang Michelle Liu","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2023.3306543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3306543","url":null,"abstract":"The application of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has gained tremendous popularity over recent years, given its enormous potential for strengthening the quality and efficiency of healthcare services on a global scale. However, the deployment of AI in healthcare comes with both benefits and risks for patients, healthcare professionals, and the whole society. Ethical concerns, such as how to prevent AI from perpetuating preexisting health disparities while incorporating its full potential in a traditional medical setting, have been pointed out by many researchers and policymakers \u0000<xref>[1]</xref>\u0000, \u0000<xref>[2]</xref>\u0000. As regulatory frameworks and guidelines concerning ethical issues have been published by many organizations, there is a pressing need to present an overview of existing documents to see what has been achieved and what has yet to be emphasized in the field of AI health-related applications.","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50323971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Freek van der Weij;Steffen Steinert;Ibo van de Poel;Joost Alleblas;Anna Melnyk;Tristan de Wildt
{"title":"Value Change and Technological Design","authors":"Freek van der Weij;Steffen Steinert;Ibo van de Poel;Joost Alleblas;Anna Melnyk;Tristan de Wildt","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2023.3302406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3302406","url":null,"abstract":"Technology helps to solve problems, but it may also lead to unintended consequences. For example, biofuels may help to overcome the disadvantages of fossil fuels, but their production might compete with food production leading to higher food prices and hunger. Therefore, in recent decades, the societal impact of technology has come to the center of attention. To deal with potential ethical issues related to technology, many scholars have emphasized the importance of addressing values already during the design phase of new technology. Values are understood as beliefs about what is good or desirable, like human autonomy, safety, sustainability, or privacy. Researchers in ethics and philosophy of technology have developed a variety of approaches, like value-sensitive design (VSD) and responsible research and innovation, to help engineers embed values in technological design (e.g., \u0000<xref>[32]</xref>\u0000).","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/44/10260710/10260697.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50323962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Publication Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2023.3308835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3308835","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/44/10260710/10260694.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50323975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding the Role of Technology in Society","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2023.3308841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3308841","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/44/10260710/10260701.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50323960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The First Total War and the Sociotechnical Systems of Warfare","authors":"Jordan Richard Schoenherr","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2023.3299315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3299315","url":null,"abstract":"Warcraft Evolves by identifying and adapting the technical and functional affordances of technologies to exploit vulnerabilities in adversaries’ defenses and defend against their attacks \u0000<xref>[1]</xref>\u0000. Nowhere is this arms race more apparent than cybersecurity wherein zero-day vulnerabilities are identified and exploited at an ever-growing rate \u0000<xref>[2]</xref>\u0000. Cybersecurity, however, is not limited to hardware and software. Cyberoperations require an understanding of the larger sociotechnical system that includes individual users and groups, for example, governmental, industry, and nongovernmental organizations. Indeed, the failure to identify the technical and functional affordances that allow for zero-day vulnerabilities illustrates the ambiguous and ill-defined nature of “cyberspace.”","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50415680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembering an Ethical Engineering Advocate","authors":"Joseph Herkert;Clinton J. Andrews","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2023.3299320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3299320","url":null,"abstract":"<fig> <graphic> </fig>\u0000“Only when decent people band together to act in concert to install proper societal mechanisms and to support one another will we be able to reap the fruits of the marvelous new technologies and avert technologic catastrophes and environmental disasters. Engineers, in particular, need to think carefully about how they can act jointly to help one another to practice their profession properly.” —Unger \u0000<xref>[21, p. 72]</xref>","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/44/10260710/10260735.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50415810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ChatSh*t and Other Conversations (That We Should Be Having, But Mostly Are Not)","authors":"Jeremy Pitt","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2023.3299450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3299450","url":null,"abstract":"Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming people’s access to and attitudes toward knowledge. It is an extremely powerful technology, but this transformation presents numerous social, environmental, political, and, perhaps, in particular, educational considerations. There is a pressing need to have a profound and nuanced conversation about these considerations, without asking a chatbot for its opinion. Instead, we seem to be having mostly a distractive conversation about singularities, which is arguably a domain of sheer speculation, rather than a more pressing conversation about “the system” that produced the technology and what it is doing right now to people, society, and processes, in particular, the educational process. Therefore, starting from a viewpoint on education as the democratization of knowledge, this article presents six talking points as a contribution to the conversation about those considerations, especially with respect to education.","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/44/10260710/10260736.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50323977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential Impact of Data-Centric AI on Society","authors":"Sushant Kumar;Ritesh Sharma;Vishakha Singh;Shrikant Tiwari;Sanjay Kumar Singh;Sumit Datta","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2023.3306532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2023.3306532","url":null,"abstract":"Data-centric artificial intelligence (AI) (DCAI) has the potential to bring significant benefits to society; however, it also poses significant challenges and potential risks. It is crucial to approach the development and deployment of DCAI systems with caution, taking into account the potential societal impacts and working to mitigate any negative effects. DCAI technology is now an essential part of operations for many of the world’s largest software and hardware industries. These industries offer a range of AI and machine-learning (ML) services, tools, and platforms to society to help businesses process and analyze data. By leveraging data, these industries are able to drive innovation, optimize their operations, and gain a competitive advantage in the market. From personalized recommendations to optimized manufacturing processes, data analytics and ML algorithms are being used to improve the overall customer experience, increase efficiency, and identify new opportunities for growth. As data continue to play an increasingly important role in business operations, it is likely that more companies will adopt these technologies to stay ahead of the curve and succeed in today’s data-driven world \u0000<xref>[1]</xref>\u0000, \u0000<xref>[2]</xref>\u0000, \u0000<xref>[3]</xref>\u0000.","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/44/10260710/10260737.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50323972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}