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Safety

Safety in artificial intelligence (AI) refers to ensuring that AI systems function reliably and as...

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Security

Security in artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the principle that AI systems must be designed...

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Security by Design

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Seemingly Conscious AI

Seemingly Conscious AI (SCAI, pronounced “sky”) is a concept coined by Mustafa Solomon to describe...

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Self-determination

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Self-Governing AI

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Self-Reflection Technology

Coined by Dr. Nathan C. Walker, the principal investigator of the AI Ethics Lab at...

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Shapley Additive Explanations (SHAP)

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Silent Evaluation

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Singularity

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Situational Awareness

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Small Language Models (SLMs)

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SOC: Social Services and Housing

The Social Services and Housing sector encompasses organizations and agencies dedicated to providing support, assistance,...

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Social Scoring

Social scoring refers to systems that use artificial intelligence and data analysis to assign people...

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Social Sorting

Social sorting is the practice of categorizing people into groups based on personal traits, behaviors,...

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Solidarity

Solidarity in AI ethics and law is an ethical commitment to ensuring that AI technologies...

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Solutions Scholarship in AI

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my...

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Stochastic Parrot

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Style Transfer

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Superintelligence Alignment

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Supervised Learning

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Surrogate Decision Trees

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Surveillance

Surveillance refers to the systematic monitoring, collection, and analysis of data regarding individuals or groups,...

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Surveillance Capitalism

Surveillance Capitalism is a logic of capitalist accumulation in which personal user data is extracted,...

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Sustainability

Sustainability, in the context of AI ethics and law, is the principle that artificial intelligence...

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Sustainable Tech Innovation

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Sustained Ethical Ecosystems (SEE)

The responsible tech movement and the field of AI ethics often point to two benchmarks:...

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Sycophancy

Sycophancy refers to the tendency of an artificial intelligence system to flatter, agree with, or...

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Synthetic Data

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Synthetic Media

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Recommended Citation:  "Glossary" In AI & Human Rights Index, edited by Nathan C. Walker, Dirk Brand, Caitlin Corrigan, Georgina Curto Rex, Alexander Kriebitz, John Maldonado, Kanshukan Rajaratnam, and Tanya de Villiers-Botha. New York: All Tech is Human; Camden, NJ: AI Ethics Lab at Rutgers University, 2025. Accessed December 05, 2025. https://aiethicslab.rutgers.edu/index/glossary/.