Category: Notable People
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Downside of Fitness Trackers and Health Apps is Loss of Privacy
Author: Victoria J. Palmer; Publisher: The Conversation; Publication Year: 2016. The following article starts off with a bold statement to capture the audience, saying the public have now become the study subjects and the collection…
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Bias, Racism and Lies: Facing Up to the Unwanted Consequences of AI
AI Development, Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Privacy, Facebook, International AI Regulation, Misinformation, TwitterAuthor: N/A; Publisher: United Nations News; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) development is especially problematic for countries where governments do not have the ability to effectively regulate consumer privacy…
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Mitigating Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing: Literature Review
Artificial Intelligence, Bias Mitigation, Debiasing, Gender Bias, Natural Language Processing TechnologyAuthor: Tony Sun, Andrew Gaut, Shirlyn Tang, et al.; Publisher: Arxiv; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how despite their success in modeling various applications, natural language processing (NLP) models propagate and may even…
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Ethical Artificial Intelligence – The Dutch Insurance Industry Makes It a Mandate
AI Usage, Data Governance, Environmental Wellbeing, European Union, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Human Agency, Medical Data, Societal Wellbeing, Technical Robustness, TransparencyAuthor: Ton Reijns, Richard Weurding, Jos Schaffers; Publisher: KPMG International; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how the European Commission and corresponding European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws have established a framework…
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Ethical Data Analytics — What Every Business Needs to Know
Amazon, Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Customer Data, Facebook, Google, Hiring, Image Recognition, Microsoft, Tay, TwitterAuthor: Tom Jongen; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how if any company uses customer data to make customer-facing decisions, there are ethical issues that need to be considered. Also, it asks…
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Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
Author: Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang, James Zou, et al.; Publisher: Arxiv; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses how machine learning applied blindly runs the risk of amplifying biases in data. Word embedding, a popular…
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The State of Consumer Data Privacy Laws in the US (And Why It Matters)
Author: Thorin Klosowski; Publisher: The New York Times, Wirecutter; Publication Year: 2021. The following article points out the massive amount of data that is collected on us daily by all sorts of different companies. These…
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Doing Data Science for Social Good, Responsibly
Author: Rachel Thomas; Publisher: fast.ai; Publication Year: 2021. The following article focuses on some of the ethical considerations not-for-profits need to consider before beginning a data science project. In addition to the general privacy and…