Category: Blog Article
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Handling Data Bias
Author: Vidhi Chugh; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how as a data scientist, if you want the product you are working on to be “[artificial intelligence (AI)] for good,” then it…
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It’s Never too Early to Get Your AI Ethics Right
Author: Veronica Irwin; Publisher: Protocol; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how startups, especially early-stage ones, are focused on making evangelical sales to large enterprises. Even with good intentions, it is easy for founders…
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Code of Ethics and Standards
Author: N/A; Publisher: United States Data Science Institute (USDSI); Publication Year: N/A. The following article is a framework for how the USDSI operates from an ethical perspective and it is an excellent overview for a…
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Artificial Intelligence: Examples of Ethical Dilemmas
Author: N/A; Publisher: UNESCO; Publication Year: 2023. The following article discusses how bias is very much prevalent in today’s artificial intelligence (AI)-systems shown through many examples. When searching for school in a search system the…
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Performing Artists Push for Copyright Protection from AI Deepfakes
Author: Umberto Bacchi; Publisher: Reuters; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how TikTok’s original text to speech voice was modeled after Bev Standing, a Canadian voice actress, whose performance was never licensed by the…
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Why the World Needs More Women Data Scientists
Author: Ugonma Nwankwo, Michael Pisa; Publisher: Center for Global Development; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how evidence-based policy making is ineffective when it relies on biased information, a potential source for this is…
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Simple Analysis of Police Policies in the U.S.
Author: Trisha Sanghal, Coco Sun, and Sina Ghandian; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses findings regarding policies related to deaths caused by police departments. Is crime a predictor for violent force policies?…
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The Ethics of Data Visualization
Author: Tricia Bisoux; Publisher: AACSB; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how graphs can be highly misleading. As an ethical data scientist, it is important to both create visuals that convey the accurate information…
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Data Scientists and the Ethics of Power, Part I
Author: Travis Greene; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. In the following article, Travis Greene discusses the idea of data scientists becoming activist data scientists. Loosely basing the idea on a concept called “activist engineering” which…