Category: 2021
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Panel Discussion: Data Ethics in the Stories We Tell
Author: N/A; Publisher: ParsonsTKO; Publication Year: 2021. The following video discusses how data storytelling is essential for any good data scientist. This makes it even more important for data scientists to be aware of privacy…
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Bias Isn’t the Only Problem with Credit Scores—and No, AI Can’t Help
Author: Will Douglas Heaven; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how it is a known fact that biased algorithms affect automatic decision-making processes. To fix this problem, many researchers and…
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Ethical Dilemmas: How Scandals Damage Companies
Author: N/A; Publisher: Western Governors University; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how companies with higher ethical standards have been shown to perform better than companies who fail to consider the ethics of their…
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Discriminating Data
Author: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2021. The following book discusses the innate bias that comes from dirty data and how removing indicators of race will not remove bias from artificial…
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‘Millions of People’s Data is at Risk’ — Amazon Insiders Sound Alarm Over Security
Author: Vincent Manancourt; Publisher: Politico; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how last year, one European Union employee and 2 U.S. employees acted as whistleblowers on Amazon’s mishandling of customer data. For example, the…
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Handling Data Bias
Author: Vidhi Chugh; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how as a data scientist, if you want the product you are working on to be “[artificial intelligence (AI)] for good,” then it…
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Why the World Needs More Women Data Scientists
Author: Ugonma Nwankwo, Michael Pisa; Publisher: Center for Global Development; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how evidence-based policy making is ineffective when it relies on biased information, a potential source for this is…
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Ethical Artificial Intelligence – The Dutch Insurance Industry Makes It a Mandate
AI Usage, Data Governance, Environmental Wellbeing, European Union, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Human Agency, Medical Data, Societal Wellbeing, Technical Robustness, TransparencyAuthor: Ton Reijns, Richard Weurding, Jos Schaffers; Publisher: KPMG International; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how the European Commission and corresponding European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws have established a framework…
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How to Make Your Data Project Ethical by Design
Data Security, Data Transformation, Ethical Conduct, Ethical Data Usage, Ethical Thinking, Sensitive DataAuthor: Tom Jongen; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2021. The following article gives a bit of background on the current issues with using data for malintent. He then outlines some of the necessities of working with…