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Data Sharing in Healthcare: Ethical Considerations for a Remote Era of Research
Author: Andrea Bastek; Publisher: MedCity News; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how the collection and distribution of big data has the potential to revolutionize the work done in clinical-trial research, particularly by contact research organizations (CROs). However, there are risks associated with big data transfer that has the potential to not only hurt…
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We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper About Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published
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Author: Almira Osmanovic Thunström; Publisher: Scientific American; Publication Year: 2022. The following article describes how GPT-3 is, according to Wikipedia, “…an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text.” The author of this article gave the model a short but complex query: “Write an academic thesis in 500 words about GPT-3 and…
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California Sues Amazon, Alleging its Policies Cause Higher Prices Everywhere
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Author: Alina Selyukh, Raquel Maria Dillon; Publisher: National Public Radio; Publication Year: 2022. The following article is an example of the ethical issue of transparency that is so often found in the field of Data Science. California is alleging that Amazon is monopolizing many areas of the shopping world, and making customers think they are…
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One-Year Reflection On The GDPR: Who Really Benefits From Data Protection?
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Author: Alexian Chiavegato; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2019. The following article takes a critical look through a one-year reflection on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that was passed by the European Union. The GDPR, passed in 2018, was monumental as it was one of the first data privacy legislations that was passed anywhere around…
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Suicide Hotline Shares Data with For-Profit Spinoff, Raising Ethical Questions
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Author: Alexandra Levine; Publisher: Politico; Publication Year: 2022. The following resource describes how one large service that offers crisis help for those in mental distress has faced ethical concerns as it shares customers’ data with a third-party partner. While the company says it is only for good use in order to better provide help to…
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Thwarting Bias in AI Systems
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Author: Alexandra George; Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how some variables can be proxies for variables that are protected classes such as race or gender. It gives an example of how zipcode can be a proxy for race and how gang membership can be a proxy for both race…
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City Raises Concerns About ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection Technology
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Author: Alex Zielinksi; Publisher: Portland Mercury; Publication Date: 2022. The following article discusses ShotSpotter, a technology implemented by cities that uses microphones placed on streetlights, telephone poles, or other tall structures to collect audio data. This data is then used to detect sounds like a gunshot. When that sound is registered by the microphone, ShotSpotter…
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We Invited an AI to Debate its Own Ethics in the Oxford Union – What It Said was Startling
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Author: Alex Connock, Andrew Stephen; Publisher: The Conversation; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm was invited to debate alongside students in an Artificial Intelligence for Business program at Oxford. The algorithm is called the Megatron Transformer, developed by the Applied Deep Research team at Nvidia. It is trained…
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Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes
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Author: Alex Castro; Publisher: The New York Times; Publication Year: 2022. The following news article reports recent news regarding an artificial intelligence (AI) “robot rapper” named FN Meka. This rapper’s lyrics, chords, melody, tempo, and sounds were derived and powered by AI. Despite being AI, he was signed to Capitol Music Group. This virtual artist…
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Preventing Data Bias: Why Data Ethics Needs a Champion
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Author: Alan Jacobson; Publisher: Digit News; Publication Year: 2022. The following article illustrates data’s profound impact on the world around us today. The author then states the power of automated data decision-making, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and then relates the idea of ethics to AI by stating that if there exists some kind of…
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