Category: 2018

Social Media Mining: The Effects of Big Data in The Age of Social Media

Social Media

Click here to access original source Author: Abby McCourt Publisher: Yale Law Year: 2018 Summary: This article discusses the emerging field of social media mining, which has evolved from the intersection of big data and…
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How Cops Are Using Algorithms to Predict Crimes

Biased Data, Crime Rates, Los Angeles, Predictive Algorithms, Predictive Policing, Racial Profiling

Author: N/A; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2018. The following video discusses how cops in Los Angeles (& many places) are using predictive algorithms in policing. Proponents say it is effective at reducing crime, but many…
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Big Data Ethics and Politics: Toward New Understandings

Biased Data, Big Data, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Data Misuse, Data Usage

Author: Wenhong Chen, Anabel Quan-Haase; Publisher: Social Science Computer Review; Publication Year: 2018. The following article addresses new issues created by big data, such as biases, subjectivities, and forms of oppression. They define 4 major…
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GDPR: What Is It and How Might It Affect You?

Data Collection, Data Privacy, European Union, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation

Author: N/A; Publisher: Wall Street Journal; Publication Year: 2018. The following video discusses how even though the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enforced in Europe, and not in the United States, it could be…
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Three Ways to Avoid Bias in Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence, Human Bias, Learning Model, Performance Monitoring, Representative Dataset

Author: Vince Lynch; Publisher: TechCrunch+; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how bias in artificial intelligence (AI) can cause problems both because AI outputs are often blindly trusted, so any missed human bias could…
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The Key Concepts of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

AI Ethics, AI Risk, Artificial Intelligence, Human Cognition, Laws and Regulation, Philosophy, Robotics, Self-Driving Cars

Author: Ville Vakkuri, Pekka Abrahamsson; Publisher: IEEE Xplore; Publication Year: 2018. The following article seeks to find out what the reoccurring themes are in artificial intelligence (AI) ethics discourse as a way of understanding the…
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Algorithmic Bias Explained

Alexa, Algorithmic Bias, Amazon, Deep Learning, Gender Bias, Machine Learning

Author: N/A; Publisher: TRT World; Publication Year: 2018. The following video discusses how because algorithms are written by humans, they are not any more objective than we are. Some examples of algorithmic bias include: Amazon’s…
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Google Has a Striking History of Bias Against Black Girls

Algorithms, Biased Algorithms, Black Women, Google, Search Engine

Author: Safiya Noble; Publisher: TIME Magazine; Publication Year: 2018. The following article talks about how Google’s search algorithm is biased against the Black woman. It shows and talks about the author’s own identity as a…
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AI Policy 101: An Introduction to the 10 Key Aspects of AI Policy

AI Policy, Artificial Intelligence

Author: Tim Dutton; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2018. The following article explains the current political landscape of artificial intelligence (AI). It goes into the competitive nature of technology around the world and how countries are…
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