Category: Social Justice
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Locating ethics in data science: responsibility and accountability in global and distributed knowledge production systems
Author: Sabina Leonelli; Publisher: The Royal Society; Publication Year: 2016. The following article talks about the challenges produced in data science around the responsibilities and accountabilities of individuals in the industry. The author advocates a…
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Legal and Human Rights Issues of AI: Gaps, Challenges and Vulnerabilities
Accountability, Algorithmic Transparency, Contestability, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Discrimination, Intellectual Property, Legal Personhood, UnfairnessAuthor: Rowena Rodrigues; Publisher: Journal of Responsible Technology; Publication Year: 2020. The following article looks at how ethical issues such as algorithmic transparency, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, unfairness, bias and discrimination, lack of contestability, legal personhood issues,…
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Can We Protect AI from Our Biases?
Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Biased Algorithms, Biased Data, Criminal Justice System, Gender Bias, IBM, Tay, Training Data, Unbiased Algorithms, Unconscious Bias, WatsonAuthor: Robin Hauser; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: N/A. In the following talk, Robin Hauser talks about unconscious bias in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. As part of producing her new movie about unconscious bias, she became…
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The Ethical Questions That Haunt Facial-Recognition Research
Author: Richard Van Noorden; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2020. In the following article, science journalist Richard Van Noorden discusses how facial recognition technology is being used for malicious purposes. The Chinese government has abused facial…
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Data Experts as the Balancing Power of Big Data Ethics
Author: Richard Novak; Publisher: ProQuest; Publication Year: 2021. The following source discusses how although Big Data requires prioritization of social responsibility and adherence to data ethics, these areas tend to be understaffed. The 3 major…
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The Crime Machine, Part I and Part II
Author: Reply All; Publisher: Gimlet; Publication Year: 2018. The following podcast episodes focus on how police departments’ usage of CompStat went awry. CompStat was introduced by Jack Maple, a NYC transit cop, in the early…
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How does structural racism impact on data and AI?
Author: Reema Patel, Octavia Reeve, Andrew Strait; Publisher: The Ada Lovelace Institute; Publication Year: 2021. The following article talks about the “data divide” that exists between those who have access to artificial intelligence (AI) and…
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Cangrade Announces Patent for Removing Bias in AI Hiring
Author: N/A; Publisher: Globe Newswire; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Cangrade received a patent on its “bias-free” hiring technology solution. Cangrade used an iterative Adverse Impact algorithm, meaning not only will the…
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The UK Data Ethics Framework Explained
Author: Pierre-Nicolas Schwab; Publisher: Into the Minds; Publication Year: 2018. The following article breaks down the United Kingdome (UK) data ethics framework and answers multiple questions about it such as who it is made for,…