Category: Code of Ethics

Key Virtues for Data Science

Compassion, Honesty, Humility, Rigor

Author: Jeff Kempfe; Publisher: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics; Publication Year: 2018. In the following article, Kampfe interviewed people in a variety of careers that all have exposure to data ethics and his goal was…
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Bias in Speech Recognition

Racial Bias, Speech Recognition Algorithms, Underrepresented Datasets

Author: Jamie Brandon; Publisher: Springer Link; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how speech recognition algorithms are less effective when it comes to Black people. An algorithm was given a matched subset of identical…
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Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: A Policymaker’s Introduction

Academic Internal Review Boards, Artificial Intelligence, Georgetown University, Principles of Corporate Social Responsibility, Regulation

Author: Jamie Baker; Publisher: Center for Security and Emerging Technology; Publication Year: 2021. The following article focuses on how policy can affect how artificial intelligence (AI) is utilized and both the negative and positive connotations…
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AI can be Sexist and Racist — It’s Time to Make it Fair

Accuracy, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Bias, Ethnic Bias, Gender Bias, Training Data

Author: James Zou, Londa Schiebinger; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses different sources of bias, how to recognize the bias, and what to do about it. They bring up that a major…
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Amazon Shows off Alexa Feature that Mimics the Voices of Your Dead Relatives

Alexa, Amazon, Deepfake

Author: James Vincent; Publisher: The Verge; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Amazon has developed a feature where Alexa can mimic the voice of a dead relative. While the feature has not been…
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Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Bias

Artificial Intelligence, Data Collection, Data Usage, Socioeconomics

Author: James M. Connolly; Publisher: Information Week; Publication Year: 2022. The following article is a great, comprehensive description of artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and bias with a lot of supporting articles linked throughout. It begins…
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Building Ethical Guardrails into AI-Driven Robotic Assistants

Accountability, Artificial Intelligence, Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Robotic Assistants, Transparency

Author: James Kobielus; Publisher: Transforming Data with Intelligence (TDWI); Publication Year: 2021. The following article focuses on why there are ethical boundaries needed when building robotic assistants in this article. Developers of the artificial intelligence…
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Data Ethics is More Than Just What We Do with Data, It’s Also About Who’s Doing It

Algorithms, Data Collection, Data Usage, Decision-Making, Unconscious Bias

Author: James Arvanitakis, Andrew Francis, Oliver Obst; Publisher: The Conversation; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how, as analysts, the main 2 ethical questions that are being asked are 1). What data should be…
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Twelve Principles of Data Ethics

Data Collection, Data Utilization, Personal Data

Author: Jacob Metcalf; Publisher: Ethical Resolve; Publication Year: 2016. The following post provides a list of 12 “universal principles of data ethics.” Although the full reports from which these were derived are not available through…
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