Category: Code of Ethics
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LUCID: Exposing Algorithmic Bias through Inverse Design
Decision-Making, Equality of Outcomes, Equality of Treatment, Locating Unfairness through Canonical Inverse Design, LUCID, Output Metrics, StatisticsAuthor: Carmen Mazijn, Carina Prunkl, Andres Algaba; Publisher: Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University; Publication Year: 2022. The following paper discusses how artificial intelligence systems can generate, propagate, support, and automate bias in decision-making…
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From Headlines to Headway: Defining Data Ethics and Its Impact on Data Workers
Author: Bridget Winds Cogley; Publisher: Tableau; Publication Year: 2018. Summary: The following article defines data ethics and its importance for data professionals. The author states that ethics live “at the intersection between laws and values,”…
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The Battle for Digital Privacy Is Reshaping the Internet
Author: Brian X. Chen; Publisher: The New York Times; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how the age of digital marketing has raised some privacy concerns regarding how data are collected from consumers. This…
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Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: Sixteen Challenges and Opportunities
Author: Brian Patrick Green; Publisher: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how AI and machine learning is transforming society. As these are emerging technologies, we are…
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Author: Brian Christian; Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Publication Year: 2020. The following book focuses on word2vec, an algorithm from 2013 that allows for vector computation of words. That is, word2vec allows for computations…
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Blake Lemoine on the Ethical Implications of Google’s ‘Sentient’ AI
Author: Blake Lemoine; Publisher: Dazed; Publication Year: 2022. The following article features the author, an engineer on Google’s LaMDA chatbot generator tool, who claimed the tool had come to life. During his experiments, the AI…
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Big Data and Financial Ethics: The Significant Capabilities of
Artificial Intelligence Necessitate Human Guidance and InputAuthor: Billie Trinder; Publisher: Seven Pillars Institute; Publication Year: 2019. The following article argues that external enforcement of ethical principles in data analytics is unfeasible due to the pace of technological advancement and bureaucratic lag.…
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Chapter 8: Data Science Ethics
Author: Benjamin S. Baumer, Daniel T. Kaplan, and Nicholas J. Horton; Publisher: Modern Data Science with R, 2nd edition; Publication Year: 2021. The following textbook chapter is about data ethics, but more specifically, a technical…