Category: News Article

The Biases We Feed to Tinder Algorithms

Algorithms, Dating Apps, Discriminatory Practices, Elo-Score, Tinder

Author: N/A; Publisher: Diggit Magazine; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how algorithms play a crucial role in overall participation in public life. When it comes to apps similar to Tinder, scholars stress the…
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Salesforce Debuts AI Ethics Model: How Ethical Practices Further Responsible Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Ethical AI, Maturity Model

Author: N/A; Publisher: Sales Force: News & Insights; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how it comes as no surprise that consumers do not typically trust artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Ethical AI is the…
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Racial Equity and Data Science

Big Data, Discriminatory Practices, Racial Discrimination, Racial Equality

Author: MIT IDSS; Publisher: MIT Political Science; Publication Year: 2022. The following article features the Research Initiative on Combating Systematic Racism (ICSR) who’s goal is to seed and coordinate research used to identify racially discriminatory…
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Algorithms Are Making Economic Inequality Worse

Algorithms, Economic Inequality, Gig Laborers, Surveillance, Worker Exploitation

Author: Mike Walsh; Publisher: Harvard Business Review; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how the algorithms we design can be used to exploit workers and create an underclass of gig laborers who have no…
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Everything You Need to Know About Facebook’s Controversial Emotion Experiment

Facebook, Moral Responsibility, News Feeds

Author: Michelle N. Meyer; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2014. The following article describes how for one week in 2012, Facebook data scientists tested the effect of making News Feeds both more positive and less positive.…
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OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science

Big Data, Consent, OkCupid, Public Data

Author: Michael Zimmer; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2016. The following article describes how a group of Danish researchers publicly released a dataset of nearly 70,000 OkCupid users, including usernames, age, gender, location, the type of…
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Ethical Algorithm Design Should Guide Technology Regulation

Algorithmic Bias, Machine Learning

Author: Michael Kearns, Aaron Roth; Publisher: Brookings; Publication Year: 2020. The following article is focused on frameworks for thinking about algorithmic bias and how to address the “unanticipated consequence of following the standard methodology of…
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A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749

AOL, Big Data, Personally Identifiable Information

Author: Michael Barbaro, Tom Zeller Jr.; Publisher: The New York Times; Publication Year: 2006. The following article discusses how in 2006, AOL purposefully released 20 million anonymized search queries that had been made over a…
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A University of Maryland Professor Wants to Expose the Hidden Bias in AI, and Ehen Use It for Good

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Bias Reduction, Biased AI

Author: Maya Lora; Publisher: The Baltimore Sun; Publication Year: 2022. The following article features an interview with Lauren Rhue. The article focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) technology and how biases are implicitly coded into AI…
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