Category: Video

John Wilbanks: Let’s Pool Our Medical Data

Consent, Data Privacy, Ethical Research, Innovation, Medical Methodology

Author: John Wilbanks; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: 2012. The following speech gives an overview of the process of medical methodology and getting informed consent and how this has changed over time. The author discusses how…
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The Great Hack

Cambridge Analytics, Election, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Trump

Author: Jehane Noujaim; Publisher: Netflix; Publication Year: 2019. The following documentary shows in detail how a company called Cambridge Analytics in the United Kingdom collaborated with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg and how they influenced the entire…
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The Social Dilemma

Bigotry, Democracy, Discrimination, Mental Health, Racism, Social Media

Author: Jeff Orlowski; Publisher: Netflix; Publication Year: 2020. The following documentary provides an accessible and easily empathizable narrative for many of the consequences of social media. These “dilemmas” can be thought of as a mental…
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The Danger of AI is Weirder Than You Think

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Development

Author: Janelle Shane; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: 2019. The following TEDx Talk explores the nature of relationships between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). Shane proposes that AI was a tool that humans (particularly data scientists)…
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Data Science for Social Good with Datakind’s Jake Porway

Data Science, Datakind, Social Good

Author: Jake Porway; Publisher: O’Reilly Media; Publication Year: 2015. The following video discusses how data for good is becoming very popular, but many people are not thinking deeply about ethics as they do it, and…
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Algorithmic Bias and Fairness: Crash Course AI #18

Algorithms, Discrimination, Efficiency, Facial Recognition Systems, Manipulated Data, Training Data, Unbalanced Data

Author: Jabril Ashe; Publisher: CrashCourse; Publication Year: 2019. The following video discusses how bias is a natural outcome as systems such as the human brain or a computer algorithm try to take shortcuts in order…
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What Moral Decisions Should Driverless Cars Make?

Algorithms, Autonomous Vehicles, Car Accidents

Author: Iyad Rahwan; Publisher: TEDx Talks; Publication Year: N/A. The following talk focuses on how driverless cars use algorithms to reduce car accidents which are occurred by human errors. However, it is difficult to determine…
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Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

3rd Party Cookies, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Personal Data

Author: John Oliver; Publisher: Last Week Tonight; Publication Year: 2022. The following video discusses how 3rd party cookies on the internet track everything that you do and constantly monitor your location and interests. Companies make…
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The Danger of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice

Algorithms, Machine Learning, Predictive Algorithms

Author: Hany Farid; Publisher: TEDx Talks; Publication Year: 2018. The following video discusses how predictive algorithms are widespread and have ethical issues. He gave one study example where random internet people were given prompts and…
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