Author: lnbressa

How Bad Data Keeps Us from Good AI

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Biased Data, Data Collection, Data Infrastructure, Data Literacy, Data Quality, Unethical AI

Author: Mainak Mazumdar; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: N/A. In the following talk, Mainak argues that the biased data is what makes unethical artificial intelligence (AI), not the algorithms. Instead of spending time and money on…
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How Data Brokers Sold My Identity

Advertising, Anonymity, Data Collection, Data Privacy, Facebook, Google, Key Identifying Information, Marketing

Author: Madhumita Murgia; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: 2017. In the following talk, Madhumita discusses how data privacy is still a huge issue. Even though data is anonymized there are still key identifying information such as…
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First Do No Harm: An Exploration of Researchers’ Ethics of Conduct in Big Data Behavioral Studies

Big Data, Consent, Research Practices

Author: Maddalena Favaretto, Eva De Clercq, Jens Gaab, Bernice Simone Elger; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2020. The following article focuses on the ethics in data science with the emergence of Big Data.…
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What the Data Say About Police Brutality and Racial Bias — and Which Reforms Might Work

Data Collection, Law Enforcement, Police Brutality, Police Violence, Racial Bias

Author: Lynne Peeples; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how with recent police brutality acts, many have been fighting for the past years on the need for better data on the force…
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Delayed Impact of Fair Machine Learning

Fairness, Fairness Criteria, Machine Learning

Author: Lydia T. Liu, Sarah Dean, Esther Rolf, Max Simchowitz, Moritz Hardt; Publisher: BAIR; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses the pursuit of fairness in terms of machine learning implementation in regards to treatment…
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Vietnam has Major Data Leak Problem, Citizens Suffer

Information Leak, Personal Data, Personal Information, Scam Calls, Vietnam

Author: Luu Quy; Publisher: VN Express International; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how in Vietnam, a random person could receive hundreds of scam calls. The leakage of personal information is affecting normal life…
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AI Creating Art is an Ethical and Copyright Nightmare

Art Generation, Artificial Intelligence, Displaced Work

Author: Luke Plunkett; Publisher: Kotaku; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how using artificial intelligence (AI) to create art is somewhat new, but growing rapidly. AI art is when “artists write algorithms not to…
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Increasing Transparency in Perspective’s Machine Learning Models

Algorithms, Google, Model Transparency, Toxicity, Training Data

Author: Lucy Vasserman, John Cassidy; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how the Jigsaw team at Google analyzed Perspective API’s toxicity model, which gives toxicity scores to online comments from a variety…
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Diversity in Data Science: A Systemic Inequality

Hiring, Racial Disparities

Author: Luciano Vilas Boas; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article serves as a comprehensive look into why data science educators and large tech companies both do not hire at the proportion of Blacks,…
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