An informational writing piece, typically conversational and informal in style, that is published in the blog section of a website.
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 to think of cutting corners, which can have bad consequences. If investors do not trust the team or the product, the startup can be in deep trouble. If the artificial…
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 code of standards for ethics. The article starts with the 3 pillars as the the “three Vs”: Vision, values, and virtues. For vision, they state that they seek to achieve its vision to adhere to the quality standards of providing quality data…
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 results often show women in promiscuous outfits, skinny, and white. However, when searching for school boy, the pictures are perfectly ordinary. There was…
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 platform. Instead, some of her previous work was acquired by the developers, and an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm was used to develop the voice that was ultimately…
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 bias in the datasets. In the U.S., women make up 18% of data scientist jobs and in lower-income countries, that stat is even worse. In the data value chain, which includes collection, publication, uptake and…
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? Well, researchers found that violent crime does not explain restrictive policy. While policing is a complicated topic, this does point to inherent biases in the system which must be accounted…
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 and not be a part of misinformation and also know how to interpret visuals well. It is important to be aware of biases when making graphs and to know when reading them, that they are not…
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 was developed in 2015, Greene describes an activist data scientist as someone who realizes the social and political community they live in, and who realizes that…
Author: Ton Reijns, Richard Weurding, Jos Schaffers; Publisher: KPMG International; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how the European Commission and corresponding European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws have established a framework for ethical artificial intelligence (AI) usage, specifically within the insurance industry. The Dutch have adopted and mandated their own set of standards based off these…
Author: Tommy Jones; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how with the development of technology, the probability of a company experiencing a data breach becomes higher and higher. There are many data privacy protection technologies emerging but which one should be used and which is the right one is still hard to decide. This article offers 3 major methods of…