5 Things Lawyers Need to Know About AI

Author: Aaina Agarwal, Patrick Hall, Sara Jordan, Brenda Leong; Publisher: Future of Privacy Forum; Publication Year: 2021. The following article focuses on looking at the ethics of AI use from a lawyer’s perspective, providing some of the potential legal issues that could arise with AI misuse. The article brings up 5 different aspects of AI to be aware of. Firstly, machine learning systems are probabilistic. No machine learning model can make…

Big Data: Destroyer of Informed Consent

Author: A. Michael Froomkin; Publisher: Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics, and Yale Journal of Law & Technology; Publication Year: 2019. The following article focuses on how a regulation was changed in 2019 to revise what it means for the requirement of informed consent. Now that companies collect data virtually everywhere and data scientists are trying to find correlations in virtually anything i.e. Machine Learning algorithms clustering people in an uneasily…

How Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Can Accelerate Your Data Strategy

Author: N/A; Publisher: Harvard Business Review; Publication Year: 2021. The following article focuses on privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and how “vendors should be able to explain the technologies they use, and the benefits and trade-offs of each, in helping you maintain compliance with data privacy regulations while building consumer trust.” The article lists 6 key features to consider…

Philosophy Bites: Peter Railton on AI and Ethics

Author: Peter Railton; Publisher: Philosophy Bites on Podcast Addict; Publication Year: 2022. The following podcast episode talks about the nature of AI from a philosophical lens and asks what kind of moral responsibility should we give to AI. The episode reckons with the question of whether these entities actually have a moral responsibility. The philosopher, Peter Railton, talks about the many issues and…

Ethical Dilemmas in Data Science

Author: N/A; Publisher: Statistics.com; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses a few of the issues that might crop up in response to an attempted solution to another ethical issue. One issue that isn’t talked about much in more democratic countries is the ethical issues associated with non-democratic countries’ implementation of AI/ML using it to control their population…

AI in Banking: Survey Reveals Factors for Success | SAS

Author: N/A; Publisher: SAS Insights; Publication Year: N/A. The following post is about where AI is being implemented in banking, what it is being used for, and who is in charge of keeping an eye on the results. The post utilizes bar charts to illustrate the information. The post talks about how banks are currently in the experimental phases of AI implementation and how policies and…

What Is Data Ethics and How Can Storage Improve Ethics Best Practices?

Author: N/A; Publisher: Pure Storage; Publication Year: N/A. The following article introduces the topic of data ethics by stating that it answers the questions “how can our organization collect, store, and use data ethically?” and also “what consumer rights must we protect?” The article emphasizes the importance of knowing the risks associated with data ethics and that appropriate…