As with 2022, Computer Weekly technology and ethics coverage continued with a focus on working conditions in the tech sector, looking, for example, at the experience of UK Apple workers attempting to unionise and the efforts of digital gig workers who train and maintain today’s much-hyped artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
AI itself also took centre stage in Computer Weekly’s technology and ethics coverage, reflecting the proliferation of the tech globally since the end of 2022 when generative AI models came to the fore. This included stories about algorithmic auditing, the ethics of AI’s military applications, and its potentially unlawful deployment in Greek refugee camps.
Interviews conducted throughout the year with AI critics were also a big focus, with the idea being to elucidate perspectives that might otherwise get drowned out in the constant upswing of the AI hype cycle.
Computer Weekly also covered calls by developers small and large to break the app store monopolies of Apple and Google, plans by the UK government to surveil the bank accounts of benefit claimants, and developments related to various workplace monitoring technologies.
