Category: Social Justice
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Artificial Intelligence Has a Problem With Gender and Racial Bias. Here’s How to Solve It
Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Discrimination, Facial Analysis Software, Gender Bias, IBM, Microsoft, Racial Bias, Safe Face PledgeAuthor: Joy Buolamwini; Publisher: Time Magazine; Publication Year: 2019. In the following article, notable data ethics advocate Joy Buolamwini shares her journey combating gender and racial bias in artificial intelligence (AI). After encountering biased facial…
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The Algorithmic Justice League
Author: Joy Buolamwini; Publisher: The Algorithmic Justice League; Publication Year: N/A. The following group is an organization that addresses the social implications and harms of artificial intelligence (AI) by raising public awareness about the impacts…
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Ethical by Design: Ethics Best Practices for Natural Language Processing
Ethical by Design, Natural Language Processing Technology, Transparency, User Values, User-Centric, VisibilityAuthor: Jochen L. Leidner, Vassilis Plachouras; Publisher: ACL Anthology; Publication Year: 2017. The following article features Jochen L. Leidner and Vassilis Plachouras who are Data Scientists at Thomson Reuters, Research & Development located in the…
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Op-Ed: The Role of Ethics in Data-Driven Policymaking
Data Generation, Data Misuse, Data Security, Decision-Making, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Personal Data, Policymakers, Public Policy, Racial Data, Stanford Prison Experiment, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Vulnerable PopulationsAuthor: Jenna Shelton; Publisher: Brief Policy Perspectives; Publication Year: 2019. The following article is an opinion piece about the need for policymakers to use data ethically. The author points out that data can help inform…
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The Great Hack
Author: Jehane Noujaim; Publisher: Netflix; Publication Year: 2019. The following documentary shows in detail how a company called Cambridge Analytics in the United Kingdom collaborated with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerburg and how they influenced the entire…
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Key Concepts for a Data Science Ethics Curriculum
Aggregation, Anonymity, Conduct, Consent, Curriculum, Data Accuracy, Data Misuse, Data Validity, Group Harm, Model Design, Model Misuse, Personal Harm, PrivacyAuthor: Jeffrey Saltz, Neil Dewar, Robert Heckman; Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library; Publication Year: 2018. The following article features reviewed published codes of conduct and ethics in data science by the authors…
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Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool that Showed Bias Against Women
Author: Jeffrey Dastin; Publisher: Reuters; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how being able to make the hiring process easier or less time-consuming is a goal for most major big companies. Some companies, like…
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10 Things Judges Should Know About AI
Author: Jeff Ward; Publisher: Judicature; Publication Year: 2019. The following article features Professor Jeff Ward of Duke University who discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in courtrooms. Current AI tools are effective in…
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The Social Dilemma
Author: Jeff Orlowski; Publisher: Netflix; Publication Year: 2020. The following documentary provides an accessible and easily empathizable narrative for many of the consequences of social media. These “dilemmas” can be thought of as a mental…