Pub Date : 2025-11-14DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3627873
Chris Gell;Peter R. Lewis
In this article, we examine the concerning trend of increasing physiognomic artificial intelligence (AI) applications, such as those assessing an individual’s employability, criminality, and even sexual orientation, and attempt to understand why trust may be given to these systems despite their biased and baseless conclusions. While the practice of linking facial features to human characteristics should be rightfully rejected at its core due to the harmful prejudices and antithesis it poses to responsible AI development, this still has not stopped the recent influx of literature claiming to provide unbiased insights in this field of study. To understand this trend, we examine these claims through the lens of a trust model to hypothesize why such applications are gaining acceptance. After reviewing recent literature for common trends, it appears that these applications are gaining acceptance and trust under the guise of big data through the use of exceptionally large datasets, cognitive bias toward believing the output of mathematical frameworks, and data dredging to find relationships justifying their physiognomic hypothesis. As such, we show that when these factors are combined, each contributing toward various dispositions to trust, it unfortunately leads to situations where acceptance of their faulty results becomes a plausible reality, harming individuals affected by their outputs.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-08DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3613291
Jesús Ignacio Castro Salazar;A. J. Cetina-Quiñones;José Israel Herrera;Amina El Mekaoui
The increasing need for electrical and electronic devices, particularly solar panels, has resulted in a significant increase in waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), which presents inherent hazards to both human well-being and the environment if not properly handled. Efficient laws and governmental bodies play a crucial role in tackling and reducing difficulties related to WEEE. WEEE generation rates are increasing globally although the regulations and management of this waste are not keeping pace with these increases in many countries. WEEE-related legislation coverage prevents negative impacts on human health, the environment, and ecosystems. Therefore, this study explains the deficiencies in Mexican legislation on WEEE and lays the groundwork for future initiatives to establish or improve regulation in this area. To this end, the study examines the existence and content of legislation on WEEE issues and identifies the measures enacted in the 32 states of Mexico. In addition, the study compares the existence of WEEE regulations against the production and distribution examples of certain EEE by state. In Mexico, current laws classify WEEE as waste requiring certain management procedures without specifically designating them as hazardous, despite their characteristics. Furthermore, states with a high presence of EEE lack regulations on the subject.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-19DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3605115
Raffaele Fabio Ciriello;Vitali Mindel
Decades of neoliberal capitalism have concentrated power, deepened inequity, and degraded democracy. The global rise of autocracy and the corporate capture of digital infrastructure have entrenched economic and political dominance. Real change is urgent. This article proposes techno-collectivism: a Chomskyan libertarian socialist model to govern digital infrastructure at scale. By combining communal ownership, needs-based distributive justice, and citizen control, techno-collectivism addresses the systemic pathologies of capitalism while avoiding the threat of autocratic capture through scalable coordination. We discuss techno-collectivism’s principles and mechanisms, suggesting universities as optimal testbeds for institutional experimentation.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3587581
Alexi Orchard;John T. Behrens;Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
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Pub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3602249
{"title":"IEEE App","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2025.3602249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2025.3602249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":"44 3","pages":"7-7"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11163582","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145036779","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}
Pub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3600083
{"title":"IEEE Women in Engineering","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2025.3600083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2025.3600083","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":"44 3","pages":"C3-C3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11163590","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145036201","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}
Pub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3598826
Terri Bookman
Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.
提供社会信息，可能包括新闻，评论或技术笔记，从业者和研究人员应该感兴趣。
{"title":"Heather Love Honored With Brian M. O’Connell SSIT Distinguished Service Award","authors":"Terri Bookman","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2025.3598826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2025.3598826","url":null,"abstract":"Provides society information that may include news, reviews or technical notes that should be of interest to practitioners and researchers.","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":"44 3","pages":"54-55"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11163555","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145036863","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}
Pub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3590885
Tracy Valcourt
Presents reviews for the following list of books, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want—Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna (New York, NY, USA: Harper Books, 2025, 274 pp.).
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Pub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3600085
{"title":"Join IEEE SSIT","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2025.3600085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2025.3600085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":"44 3","pages":"C2-C2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11163595","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145036883","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}
Pub Date : 2025-09-12DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3602270
{"title":"Update Your IEEE Profile","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2025.3602270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2025.3602270","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":"44 3","pages":"79-79"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11163596","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145036749","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}
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