Discriminating Data

Author: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2021. The following book discusses the innate bias that comes from dirty data and how removing indicators of race will not remove bias from artificial intelligence. The author explains several concepts including: alternative algorithms, defaults, and interdisciplinary coalitions to foster more ethical/democratic data…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Responsible Machine Learning

Author: Przemysław Biecek, Anna Kozak, Aleksander Zawada; Publisher: GitHub; Publication Year: 2022. The following comic focusses on the need to learn the importance and application of different Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) concepts and methods in a mix of graphic novel and textbook. Walk through the process of building a predictive model for COVID-19 risk and see how to use the DALEX package to analyze and explain variable…

Why Privacy Matters

Author: Neil Richards; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Publication Year: 2021. The following book talks about the digital world and how our current society has evolved into becoming a completely digital one. The author talks about how the battle for privacy is a power struggle that will shape our future and determine if it is fair and free. We need to take privacy seriously if we want to create a digital society that is consistent with our…

Ethics and Data Science

Author: Mike Loukides, Hilary Mason, DJ Patil; Publisher: O’Reilly; Publication Year: 2018. The following book focuses on implementing ethical guidelines into data scientists’ daily work. The authors provide 5 framing guidelines: consent, clarity, consistency, control, and consequences. It is important that the authors address the whole cycle of data science. They address ethical issues throughout data collection, modeling, model…

Artificial Unintelligence

Author: Meredith Broussard; Publisher: The MIT Press; Publication Year: 2018. The following book argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. Broussard writes that there are fundamental limits to what we can and should do. She warns that we should never assume that computers always get things right. Her book…

Beyond Data Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI

Author: Alessandro Mantelero; Publisher: Open Access; Publication Year: 2022. The following section of this book focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on individuals and society from a legal perspective, providing a comprehensive risk-based methodological framework to address it. Building on the limitations of data protection in dealing with the challenges of AI, the author proposes an integrated approach to risk…

Justice for “Data Janitors”

Author: Lilly Irani; Publisher: Public Books; Publication Year: 2015. The following article describes how when things in the technology world become automated, the work that is being “replaced” is not actually replaced, but displaced. For example, a manufacturing process that has been automated may replace the individual workers, but over the long term, it just displaces them to monitor the machines and facilitate…

The Ethics of Using Social Media Data in Research: A New Framework

Author: Leanne Townsend, Claire Wallace; Publisher: Emerald Insight; Publication Year: 2017. The following book chapter talks about how over the past decade, the number of people engaging with social media has grown rapidly. This means that social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are potentially good sources of rich, naturally occurring data. As a result, a growing number of researchers are utilizing these platforms for…

Ethics of Data & Analytics Concepts & Cases

Author: Kirsten Martin; Publisher: Auerbach Publications; Publication Year: 2022. The following book talks about the ethics of data and analytics. It talks about how every decision made in todays businesses has a moral component since it affects how people are treated, how regulations are followed or broken, how fairly they are treated, and how their rights are expanded or restricted. In a nutshell, big data and analytics has given rise to a…