Category: Research Article

Building Human Rights into Intelligent-Community Design: Beyond Procurement

Digital Infrastructure, Human Rights, Human Rights Impact Assessments, Human Risk, Intelligent Community

Author: Phil Dawson Faun Rice Maya Watson; Publisher: Harvard Kennedy School; Publication Year: 2022. The following research paper highlights the importance of designing “intelligent community” projects to be able to meet their full potential in…
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AI Ethics in Predictive Policing: From Models of Threat to an Ethics of Care

Crime Reduction, Ethics of Care Approach, Models of Threat Approach, Predictive Policing

Author: Peter Asaro; Publisher: IEEE Xplore; Publication Year: 2019. The following article looks at predictive policing from 2 lenses they refer to as the Ethics of Care Approach and the Models of Threat Approach. The…
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Can Data Science Change Human Resources?

Decision-Making, Human Resources

Author: Peter Cappelli, Prasand Tambe, Valery Yakubovich; Publisher: Research Gate; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how the need for better and more objective decisions is evident. It is also clear that the realities…
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It’s Good to Share: Why Environmental Scientists’ Ethics Are Out of Date

Climate Change, Data Sharing, Environmental Science, Undersharing Data

Author: Patricia A. Soranno, Kendra S. Cheruvelil, Kevin C. Elliott, Georgina M. Montgomery; Publisher: BioScience; Publication Year: 2015. The following article discusses how many times we are concerned with the ethics of oversharing data, but…
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Data Ownership in Individual Sports: Narrative Review

Data Collection, Data Usage, Personal Data

Author: Nuno Fonseca, Mario C. Marques, Dulce Esteves; Publisher: Journal of Physical Education and Sport; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how the massive use and consumption of the digital age, combined with constant…
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Big Data Phenotyping in Rare Diseases: Some Ethical Issues

Algorithms, Computational Phenotyping, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Algorithms, Personal Data

Author: Nina Hallowell, Michael Parker, Christoffer Nellåker; Publisher: Genetics in Medicine; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how computational phenotyping (using machine learning algorithms [MLAs] to analyze photographic images) has improved healthcare experience for…
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Data Ethics Club: Creating a Collaborative Space to Discuss Data Ethics

Collaboration, Data Ethics Club, Data Science, Interdisciplinary

Author: Nina H. Di Cara, Natalie Zelenka, Huw Day, Euan D.S. Bennet, Vanessa Hanschke, Valerio Maggio, Ola Michalec, Charles Radclyffe, Roman Shkunov, Emma Tonkin, Zoë Turner, Kamilla Wells; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year:…
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SAM: The Sensitivity of Attribution Methods to Hyperparameters

Explainability, Machine Learning, Training Data, Transparency

Author: Naman Bansal, Chirag Agarwal, Anh Nguyen; Publisher: N/A; Publication Year: 2020. The following article provides examples and an accompanying talk that illustrates how in many classification machine learning systems, even more explainable models, not…
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Predictive Privacy: Towards an Applied Ethics of Data Analytics

Prediction Gap, Predictive Analytics, Predictive Privacy, Proxy Data

Author: Rainer Mühlhoff; Publisher: Ethics and Information Technology; Publication Year: 2021. The following paper focuses on predictive analytics (PA), where a model is used to predict the actions of a target individual/group based on large…
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