Category: News Article

Suicide Hotline Shares Data with For-Profit Spinoff, Raising Ethical Questions

Crisis Help, Data Privacy, Data Sharing, Ethical Concerns, Mental Distress, Personal Identifying Information, Third-Party

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…
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Thwarting Bias in AI Systems

Algorithms, Personal Information, Proxies, Proxy Detection Algorithm

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…
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City Raises Concerns About ShotSpotter Gunshot Detection Technology

Audio Data, Data Collection, Law, Law Enforcement, Location Data, People of Color, Police Activity, Portland, Portland City Council, ShotSpotter

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.…
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We Invited an AI to Debate its Own Ethics in the Oxford Union – What It Said was Startling

AI Threat, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Information Warfare, Megatron Transformer, Nvidia, Oxford

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…
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Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes

Artificial Intelligence, Black Issues, Capitol Music Group, Digital Blackface, FN Meka, Incarceration, Police Brutality, Robot Rapper, Stereotypes

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…
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Preventing Data Bias: Why Data Ethics Needs a Champion

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Systems, Automation, Biased Data, Data Decision-Making, Propagating Bias, Upskilling

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…
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Robinhood App Hit by Data Breach Exposing Users’ Emails, Names

Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Hacker, Personal Information, Robinhood, Social Engineering

Author: AFP; Publisher: The Economic Times; Publication Year: 2021. The following article details how on November 3, 2021, a hacker snatched approximately 5 million email addresses and 2 million users’ names with a technique called…
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FTC Sues Data Broker for Letting People Track Health Clinic Visitors

Abortion, Federal Trade Commission, Justice, Kochava, Law, Personal Health, Personal Safety, Roe v. Wade, Selling Data

Author: Adi Robertson; Publisher: The Verge; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses a recent lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against a company called Kochava that was selling data, which in some…
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Ethics in Action – MIT

Ethical Concepts, Ethical Considerations, Ethical Dilemmas, Experiential Ethics, Higher Education, Internships, Justice, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Ethics and Sustainability Student Showcase, Summer Course, Unethical Behavior

Author: Adam Zewe; Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Publication Year: 2022. The following article explains how MIT has begun offering an Experiential Ethics summer course in which students work through real-world ethical dilemmas while often…
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