Author: lnbressa

Europeans Can’t Talk About Racist AI Systems. They Lack the Words.

Automated Systems, Language Use, Racial Bias

Author: Nicolas Kayser-Bril; Publisher: AlgorithmWatch; Publication Year: N/A. The following article provides an interesting international perspective based on the language use and history of Europe. An economic powerhouse in the first world, not being able…
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AlgorithmWatch Forced to Shut Down Instagram Monitoring Project After Threats from Facebook

Algorithms, Facebook, Instagram, Social Media, Transparency, User Privacy

Author: Nicolas Kayser-Bril; Publisher: AlgorithmWatch; Publication Year: 2020. The following article attempts to explore what drives the Instagram algorithm’s recommendations on people’s timelines led to a serious response form Facebook looking to shut it down.…
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Automated Translation is Hopelessly Sexist, but Don’t Blame the Algorithm or the Training Data

Automated Translation Services, Gender Stereotypes, Language Translation Datasets, Training Data

Author: Nicolas Kayser-Bril; Publisher: Algorithm Watch; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how automated translation services tend to erase women or reduce them to stereotypes. Simply tweaking the training data or the models is…
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Algorithmic Bias Detection and Mitigation: Best Practices and Policies to Reduce Consumer Harms

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Bias Mitigation, Human Bias, Technical Diligence

Author: Nicol Turner Lee, Paul Resnick, Genie Barton; Publisher: Brookings; Publication Year: 2019. The following piece describes how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to manage greater aspects of our economy. There is risk that…
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Protecting Lives & Liberty: How Contact Tracing Apps Can Foil Both COVID-19 and Big Brother

COVID-19, COVID-19 Contact Tracing, Data Privacy, DP-3T Protocol, Location Data, Sensitive Data

Author: Nicky Case; Publisher: ncase.me; Publication Year: N/A. The following resource considers how should we balance leveraging sensitive data to combat important social issues (e.g., COVID-19 contact tracing) while ensuring data privacy? One answer is…
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Privacy in the Digital Age

Digital Privacy, Individual Rights

Author: Nicholas Martino; Publisher: TEDx Talks; Publication Year: 2016. The following video features Martino who addresses the issues of privacy and individual rights in the era of digital age that everyone should treat seriously. It…
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Making Trust a Priority: A Framework for the Ethical Use of Data

Choice, Data Creation, Data Policies, Fairness, Safety, Security, Transparency

Author: Nicholas Knoop; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how with the global creation of data is expected to reach 180 zettabytes by 2025, and there is a growing imperative for data…
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Ethics and AI: Tackling Biases Hidden in Big Data

Artificial Intelligence, COVID-19, Gender Bias, Sentiment Analysis, Twitter

Author: Nello Cristianini; Publisher: European Research Council; Publication Year: 2021. The following article features Nello Cristianini, a professor of artificial intelligence from the University of Bristol, studied gender bias in media at a macro scale…
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How AI and Neuroscience Drive Each Other Forwards

Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Neuroscience

Author: Neil Savage; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2019. The following article explores how artificial intelligence (AI) and neuroscience enhance each other. AI, with its ability to identify patterns in large, complex datasets, has seen remarkable…
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