Category: Education & Training

Tesla Autopilot Crashes into Motorcycle Riders – Why?

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Motorcycles

Author: N/A; Publisher: FortNine; Publication Year: 2022. The following video discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize industries (such as automotive), but often at the cost of people or groups outside of…
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Your Robot Therapist Will See You Now: Ethical Implications of Embodied Artificial Intelligence in Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychotherapy

AI Bot, Data Privacy, Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Mental Health Care, Patient Experience

Author: Amelia Fiske, Peter Henningsen, Alena Buyx; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses the promising area of embodied artificial intelligence (AI) (the science and engineering of intelligent machines with…
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Reducing Valuation Bias by Addressing Appraiser and Property Valuation Commentary

Appraisal, Automated Valuation Models, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Neighborhood Description, Racial Bias

Author: N/A; Publisher: Federal Housing Finance Agency; Publication Year: 2021. The following document is a commentary by the Federal Housing Finance Agency about the use of automated appraisal of houses through Automated Valuation Models (AVM’s).…
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Advancing Racial Equity with Data

American Statistical Association, ASA Antiracism Task Force, Racial Equity, Racial Justice

Author: Emily Hadley Publisher: RTI International Publication Year: 2022 Summary: The following article discusses how since 2020, the American Statistical Association (ASA) created the ASA Antiracism Task Force to advance racial equity and justice. The…
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On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?

Environmental Costs, Financial Costs, Large Language Model Development, Stereotyping

Author: Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Shmargaret Shmitchell; Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library; Publication Year: 2021. The following article enumerates the costs and risks associated with contemporary large language model development.…
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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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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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Amazon Schooled on AI Facial Technology By Turing Award Winner

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Systems, IBM, Microsoft, Police Activity

Author: Dina Bass; Publisher: Bloomberg; Publication Year: 2019. The following article details 26 artificial intelligence (AI) researchers calling for Amazon to stop selling their AI facial recognition software to police departments. The group joined together…
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Data Brew

Advertising, Algorithms, Biased Data, Credit Score, Data Collection, European Union, Transparency

Author: Denny Lee, Brooke Wenig, Diana Pfeil; Publisher: Data Brew; Publication Year: N/A. The following video series discusses 3 large topics – transparency, privacy, and bias. First was the idea of transparency in data science…
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