Category: Social Justice
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AI for Climate: Freedom, Justice, and Other Ethical and Political Challenges
Author: Mark Coeckelbergh; Publisher: AI and Ethics; Publication Year: 2021. The following piece discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to help lessen climate change but can also exacerbate challenges. Examples mentioned are that…
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What Does it Mean to Embed Ethics in Data Science? An Integrative Approach Based on Microethics and Virtues
Author: Louise Bezuidenhout, Emanuele Ratti; Publisher: AI & Society; Publication Year: 2021. The following article addresses the rise of ethical concerns in data science and the issues of applying ethical approaches in day-to-day activities. Bezuidenhout…
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HireVue Assessments and Preventing Algorithmic Bias
Author: Loren Larson; Publisher: HireVue; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how HireVue is committed to good science that creates a level playing field for all candidates. Without deliberately working to reduce bias that…
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Protecting Individual-Level Census Data with Differential Privacy
Author: N/A; Publisher: Linear Digressions; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode introduces the idea of personal identifiable information (PII) in reference to census data and weighs the importance of the granularity of data against…
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Racism, the Criminal Justice System, and Data Science
Author: N/A; Publisher: Linear Digressions; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode discusses how regardless of whether race or ethnicity is included in your algorithm, correlated variables can still instill biases. The variables selected may…
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A Data Science Take on Open Policing Data
Author: N/A; Publisher: Linear Digressions; Publication Year: 2020. The following podcast episode discusses how the quality of data around policing is hit-and-miss based on region. Reporters of data are those being scrutinized, so there is…
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Justice for “Data Janitors”
Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Data Cleaning, Displaced Work, Machine Learning, Mechanical Turk, Training DataAuthor: Lilly Irani; Publisher: Public Books; Publication Year: 2015. The following article describes how when things in the technology world become automated, the work that is being “replaced” is not actually replaced, but displaced. For…
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What Legal Teams and Businesses Should Know About Ethical Data Mining and Use
Author: Kristel Staci; Publisher: The Stamp; Publication Year: 2022. The following article features a discussion of some considerations that businesses need to take into account for data usage based on the perspective of a legal…
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Big Data is Better Data
Author: Kenneth Cukier; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: 2014. The following talk’s primary idea is that when you have more data, you can see patterns and trends than you would have if you had small amounts…