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Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool that Showed Bias Against Women
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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 Amazon, have used artificial intelligence (AI) methods in order to create a model which is able to indicate which candidates…
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Amazon Shows off Alexa Feature that Mimics the Voices of Your Dead Relatives
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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 released to the public, this technology could become a part of Alexa’s regular functions. The purpose behind this technology was…
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What Do We Do About the Biases in AI?
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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 can also make the problem worse by baking in and deploying biases at scale in sensitive areas. In Broward Country,…
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Inside Amazon’s Clickworker Platform: How Half a Million People are Being Paid Pennies to Train AI
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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 2016, was 75% American, 10-15% Indian and mostly women, and do jobs such as data categorization, metadata tagging, data entry,…
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Amazon Schooled on AI Facial Technology By Turing Award Winner
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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 after a study came out that the AI software had higher predictive error rates for darker-skinned women. The American Civil…
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Amazon’s $3.9 billion One Medical Acquisition is Already Raising Data Privacy Concerns
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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 healthcare data of One Medical’s customers, especially now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned. Who will have access to…
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Synthetic Data Generation
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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 can become biased when trained on datasets where demographics are underrepresented. By creating synthetic, but demographically…
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Google Fined $57M by Data Protection Watchdog Over GDPR Violations
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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 but that such laws are not actually enforced, the GDPR as a regulation in Europe has been enforced by authorities…
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17 Tech Companies That Lobby the Government Most
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Author: N/A; Publisher: Business Insider India; Publication Year: 2016. The following article lists down the total amount of money being spent by big tech corporations such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and others. It shows they spend from $430,000 to about 1.1 million dollars every year in order to influence IT rules. All of this is…
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Amazon Scrapped ‘Sexist AI’ Tool
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Author: N/A; Publisher: BBC News; Publication Date: 2018. The following news article describes how an Amazon AI algorithm was trained on data submitted by amazon applicants which mainly came from men. This led to it teaching the system to prefer male candidates and it started to penalize CVs that included the word “women.” Though they…
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