Tag: Amazon

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 Pledge

Author: 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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Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool that Showed Bias Against Women

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Gender Bias, Hiring, Training Data

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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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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What Do We Do About the Biases in AI?

Algorithms, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Bias Mitigation, Explainability, Fairness, Human Bias, Racial Bias, Transparency

Author: James Manyika, Jake Silberg, Brittany Presten Publisher: Harvard Business Review Publication Year: 2019 Summary: The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify and reduce the impact of human biases. But it…
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Inside Amazon’s Clickworker Platform: How Half a Million People are Being Paid Pennies to Train AI

Amazon, Machine Algorithms, Mechanical Turk

Author: Hope Reese; Publisher: Tech Republic; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses how Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (AMT) is an online platform that allows people to perform small tasks for pay. This group, as of…
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Amazon Schooled on AI Facial Technology By Turing Award Winner

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Systems, IBM, Microsoft, Police Activity

Author: Dina Bass; Publisher: Bloomberg; Publication Year: 2019. The following article details 26 artificial intelligence (AI) researchers calling for Amazon to stop selling their AI facial recognition software to police departments. The group joined together…
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Amazon’s $3.9 billion One Medical Acquisition is Already Raising Data Privacy Concerns

Amazon, Data Use, Healthcare, One Medical, Roe v. Wade

Author: Clint Rainey; Publisher: Fast Company; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how Amazon recently acquired One Medical, a subscription-based healthcare services company. There are concerns over what Amazon will do with the protected…
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Synthetic Data Generation

Amazon, American Express, Data Protection, Google, Insufficient Representation, Synthetic Data, Training Data, Underrepresented Communities

Author: Christian Schitton; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how synthetic data is a less well-known area of data science. Synthetic data addresses issues of insufficient representation in data. For example, models…
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Google Fined $57M by Data Protection Watchdog Over GDPR Violations

Ad Personalization, Amazon, Apple, Consent, Data Collection, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Google, Lawsuits, Netflix, Spotify

Author: Chris Brook; Publisher: Data Insider; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how while it might be easy to say that just because a law has been passed to regulate data ethics more strictly…
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