Category: News Article

The AI Researcher Giving Her Field Its Bitter Medicine

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Hippocratic Oath, Machine Learning, Mentorship, Research Impacts

Author: Max Levy; Publisher: Quanta Magazine; Publication Year: 2022. The following article contains an interview with Anima Anandkumar, a professor of computing at CIT & senior director of machine learning research at Nvidia, who focuses…
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Discrimination in a Sea of Data: Exploring the Ethical Implications of Student Success Analytics

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Learning Management Systems, Machine Learning, Student Success Analytics

Author: Maureen Guarcello, Linda Feng, Shahriar Panahi, Szymon Machajewski and Marcia Ham; Publisher: Educause Review; Publication Year: 2021. The following article pertains to the ethics of using artificial intelligence (AI) and/or machine learning (ML) to…
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Even Artificial Intelligence can Acquire Biases Against Race and Gender

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Biased AI, Discriminatory Practices, Gender Bias, Racial Bias

Author: Matthew Hutson; Publisher: Science; Publication Year: 2017. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is just an extension of our existing culture. There is a common misconception that since artificial intelligence is automated…
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AI Trained on 4Chan Becomes ‘Hate Speech Machine’

Artificial Intelligence, Biased Data, Ethical Review Process, Unethical Data Practices

Author: Matthew Gault; Publisher: Vice; Publication Year: 2022. The following article serves as an extreme example of unethical data practices. There are 2 important takeaways from this article. First, artificial intelligence (AI) professionals must be…
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Using Data Science to Boost Diversity, Using Diversity to Boost Data Science

Data Revolution, Data Science, Equity, Fairness, Unseen Bias

Author: Matt Swayne; Publisher: Penn State; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses the symposium, “Harnessing the Data Revolution to Enhance Diversity,” which had the message “Data science can only be data science for good…
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15 AI Ethics Leaders Showing The World The Way Of The Future

AI Ethicist, Artificial Intelligence

Author: Mark Minevich; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how people are the root cause behind any harm carried out by artificial intelligence (AI), so it is important to have trustworthy ethicists…
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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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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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