The following blog post was written by CCC’s Addressing the Unforeseen Deleterious Impacts of Technology (AUDIT) Task Force Computing technologies of all stripes have brought enormous benefits to people’s lives, but also significant individual and societal harms. As these technologies become increasingly ubiquitous and powerful, we should expect the potential benefits and harms to grow as well. These shifts raise crucial questions about the foreseeability of impacts of the work of computing researchers and developers, as it is much easier to promote benefits and mitigate harms when they can be anticipated. We can ensure wide access (if beneficial), establish guardrails (if problematic), and much more, but only if we actually […]

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Computing technologies have brought both benefits and harms. Anticipating and addressing these impacts is essential. There are challenges in foreseeing the effects, but methods and approaches are being developed to improve our understanding. Incentives and institutional structures often hinder the anticipation of harms, but direct engagement with impacted communities and changes in organizational cultures can help. Policy and regulatory approaches may also be necessary. Addressing harms is a difficult task, but efforts are being made to mitigate them.

Addressing harms: Moving beyond intent