Category: 2022

Closing the Public Health Ethics Gap

COVID-19, PREVENT Pandemics Act, Public Health

Author: Efthimios Parasidis, Amy L. Fairchild; Publisher: The New England Journal of Medicine; Publication Year: 2022. The following article argues that a lack of professional ethicists on public health teams during the pandemic was a…
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What Scientists Have Learnt from COVID Lockdowns

Cost-Benefit Analysis, COVID-19, Lockdown Impact

Author: Dyani Lewis; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how data can be used to compare countries’ performances in the COVID-19 lockdown. There was a controversial article that boldly claimed that lockdowns…
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Healthcare Researchers Must Be Wary of Misusing AI

Algorithms, Clinical Research, Decision-Making, Machine Learning

Author: Duke-NUS Medical School; Publisher: Science Daily; Publication Year: 2022. The following article advises that strong care needs to be taken not to misuse or overuse machine learning in healthcare research. An international team of…
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AI Facial Recognition Systems Work the Worst for Black Women

Algorithmic Injustice, Artificial Intelligence, Criminal Justice System, Facial Recognition Systems, Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Training Data

Author: Dianna Mazzone; Publisher: Allure; Publication Year: 2022. The following article describes how Dr. Joy Buolamwini, executive director of The Algorithmic Justice League, has been working to fight against racial and gender bias in facial…
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Data Scientists Have Access to Your Sensitive Data. That’s Driving More Schools to Teach Ethics

Bias Elimination, Ethical Practice, Incentive

Author: Dawn Rzeznikeicz; Publisher: Fortune Education; Publication Year: 2022. The following article asks whether data scientists/computer scientists have any obligation to practice data ethics and do they place technological advancements over ethical considerations. Those questions…
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How Overturning Roe v Wade has Eroded Privacy of Personal Data

Criminal Prosecution, Data Collection, Femtech, Flo, Meta, Personal Information, Private Data, Reproductive History, Roe v. Wade

Author: David Cox; Publisher: The BMJ; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how earlier this year, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 landmark case that legally established the right to abortion.…
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How Google, Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente Tackle AI Bias and Thorny Data Privacy Problems

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Deidentifying Data, Health Data, Systematic Bias

Author: Dave Muoio; Publisher: Fierce Healthcare; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses health data and the problems that this data has when related to artificial intelligence (AI) and privacy. As systemic biases are built…
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Data Ethics Principles

Ethical Data Culture

Author: N/A; Publisher: Danske Bank; Publication Year: 2022; The following document from Danske Bank that demonstrates the data ethics principles that they have applied to promote a sound and ethical data culture within their business…
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Bias and Fairness of AI-Based Systems Within Financial Crime

Artificial Intelligence, Fairness, Fairness-Aware Culture

Author: Danny Butvinik; Publisher: NICE Actimize; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses the benefits of addressing bias in artificial intelligence (AI)-based systems and provided a “Fairness-Aware Culture” guideline for addressing this issue. The guideline…
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