Data Ethics Repository

Tag: Alexa

Algorithmic Bias Explained

Alexa, Algorithmic Bias, Amazon, Deep Learning, Gender Bias, Machine Learning

Author: N/A; Publisher: TRT World; Publication Year: 2018. The following video discusses how because algorithms are written by humans, they are not any more objective than we are. Some examples of algorithmic bias include: Amazon’s…
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How to Keep Human Bias Out of AI

Alexa, Artificial Intelligence, Gender Bias, Pregnancy, Racial Bias, Sexism, Siri, Targeted Advertising, Voice Assistants

Author: Kriti Sharma; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: N/A. The following video features Kriti Sharma who talks about how human-programmed artificial intelligence (AI) can have the biases of humans encoded into them and how this can…
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Amazon Shows off Alexa Feature that Mimics the Voices of Your Dead Relatives

Alexa, Amazon, Deepfake

Author: James Vincent; Publisher: The Verge; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Amazon has developed a feature where Alexa can mimic the voice of a dead relative. While the feature has not been…
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The Ethics of Digital Voice Assistants

Alexa, CASA Paradigm, Gender, Siri, Social Actors, Social Norms, Sterotyping, Voice Assistants

Author: Beatriz Suarez; Publisher: Viterbi Conversations in Ethics; Publication Year: 2021. In the following article, the author discusses the ethics of voice assistants like Siri and Alexa. The way they are currently designed, voice assistants…
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