Keywords: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics Washing, Facebook, Misinformation, Silicon Valley
Author: Margo Gerritsen, Karen Hao
Publisher: Women in Data Science Podcast
Publication Year: N/A
Summary: In the following podcast episode, the focus is on Karen Hao who wrote an influential article in MIT Technology Review describing ethical tensions at Facebook. In this segment of the interview, Karen describes the conflict between Facebook’s need to grow and the artificial intelligence algorithm’s amplification of stories that contained misinformation. She further elaborates on “ethics washing” present in Silicon Valley businesses and stresses that profit incentives are at odds with fixing the ethical problems from inside the companies.