Category: Frameworks

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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The Ethical Dilemma at the Heart of Big Tech Companies

Administrative Regulations, Algorithmic Accountability Documentation, Business, Human Resource Decisions, Investment Priorities

Author: Emanuel Moss, Jacob Metcalf; Publisher: Harvard Business Review; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how for better or worse, the parameters of ethically-developed business processes will drive future administrative regulations, algorithmic accountability documentation,…
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Internet Research Ethics

Anonymity, Big Data, Consent, Data Confidentiality, Data Tracking, Deception, Ethical Obligations, Minors, Personally Identifiable Information, Surveillance

Author: Elizabeth A. Buchanan; Publisher: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; Publication Year: 2021. The following resource discusses how internet research comes with a myriad of ethical questions: What ethical obligations do researchers have to protect the…
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What Responsibilities Does Facebook Have With Our Private Data?

9th Amendment, Data Storage, Differential Privacy, Facebook, Private Data, Public Data, Social Media

Author: Elisa Celis; Publisher: Data Science Ethics; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how Facebook is currently the largest social media platform and stores enormous amounts of data. Facebook has data from a user’s…
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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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The Ethics of the AI Song Contest

Artificial Intelligence, Credit and Attribution, Music

Author: Ed Newton-Rex, Hendrik Vincent Koops; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses the ethical considerations behind using artificial intelligence (AI) to help create music. The author served as a judge for 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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The Five Cs: Five Framing Guidelines to Help You Think About Building Data Products

Consent, Consistency, Transparency, Unintended Consequences

Author: DJ Patil, Hilary Mason, Mike Loukides; Publisher: O’Reilly; Publication Year: 2018. The following article provides 5 guidelines to help build data products in a professional way. These include 1). Consent (making sure you have…
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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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