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 people argue that it helps police justify racial profiling. The data is biased because policing statistics have always disproportionately targeted minorities, so these algorithms can not…
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 aspects of big data ethics and politics: 1). Potential biases in big data collection and interpretation, 2). Community and citizen concerns of big data (mis)use in public life and for journalistic purposes, 3). Media…
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 beneficial to look at how things are done in different countries. In May 2018, a new legislation was passed to ensure greater data privacy in European countries. This quick video…
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 be spread, and because AI used in automated functions could spread bias without knowledge. The article names 3 ways to avoid bias in machine learning. 1). Choose the right…
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 current state of AI ethics as well as determining a direction for AI ethics going forward by using these themes to create a framework. 1062 papers were analyzed and 37 reoccurring keywords words related to AI…
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 Alexa failing to recognize different accents or Google Translate associating certain jobs with certain genders. Both machine learning and deep learning are dependent on huge…
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 black woman and she talks about how a simple search of black woman would result in pornography of Black girls on Google where as in fact a similar search of say white woman does not yield such…
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 in competition to see who can implement better AI solutions. “AI policy is about maximizing AI’s many benefits for our economy and societies, while minimizing its…
Author: Sibren Isaacman; Publisher: Loyola University – Maryland; Publication Year: 2018. The following article presents a reality that most data scientists will not be able to actually see the affect of their model or algorithm being implemented which makes it difficult to test the outcome from an ethical standpoint. To remedy this he suggests to stay diligent from the start. “After all, it’s our goal to create automated processes that affect…
Author: N/A; Publisher: SciShow; Publication Year: 2018. The following video describes how when many people hear the phrase “data mining,” they think that is great and it can be, but can also cause issues due to how powerful it is. This video discusses instances such as the Target algorithm that led a father to find out his daughter was pregnant before she even knew. The speaker in the video says that data…