Tag: Automation

Financial Services Firms Turn to Data Ethics to Manage Digital Risks

Automation, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Fairness, Risks

Author: Steven Tiell; Publisher: Accenture; Publication Year: 2021. The following article talks about how In 2021, data ethics will be the tool financial services firms choose to manage digital risks in automation and cybersecurity. Practicing…
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Teaching Ethics and AI for Ethics

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Curriculum, Decision-Making, Financial Data

Author: Steven M. Mintz; Publisher: Strategic Finance; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how data ethics is vital for young professionals to learn in a new automated, decision-making world in finance. For this reason,…
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Shannon Vallor

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Ethical Biases

Author: Shannon Vallor; Publisher: Shannon Vallor; Publication Year: N/A. The following source features Shannon Vallor who is one of the most prominent names in data ethics. She describes her research as investigating the “philosophy and…
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Algorithmic Bias Detection and Mitigation: Best Practices and Policies to Reduce Consumer Harms

Algorithmic Hygiene, Automation, Incentives, Stakeholder Engagement

Author: Nicole Turner Lee, Paul Resnick, Genie Barton; Publisher: Brookings; Publication Year: 2019. The following article introduces a framework for algorithmic hygiene which lists specific causes of bias with best practices on how to recognize…
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Big Data Ethics: Redefining Values in the Digital World

Automation, Big Data

Author: N/A; Publisher: Thomson Reuters; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how there are additional ethical challenges that come into play when working with Big Data. Since there are so many observations being brought…
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Even Artificial Intelligence can Acquire Biases Against Race and Gender

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Biased AI, Discriminatory Practices, Gender Bias, Racial Bias

Author: Matthew Hutson; Publisher: Science; Publication Year: 2017. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is just an extension of our existing culture. There is a common misconception that since artificial intelligence is automated…
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Justice for “Data Janitors”

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Data Cleaning, Displaced Work, Machine Learning, Mechanical Turk, Training Data

Author: 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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The Ethics of Data Science

Automation, Data Citizens, Decision-Making, Human Impact, Ledgers, Machine Intelligence, Micro-Targeting, Personal Data, Private Data

Author: Lee Schlenker; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2019. The following article introduces the concept of data science by first stating the importance and the reach that data scientists have in the world. Data scientists help…
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Ethical and Social Risks of Harm from Language Models

Access, Automation, Discrimination, Environmental Harms, Exclusion, Information Hazards, Language Models, Malicious Uses, Misinformation, Risks, Toxicity

Author: Laura Weidinger et. al.; Publisher: DeepMind; Publication Year: 2021. The following research paper helps organize the risk landscape associated with large-scale Language Models (LMs). To advance responsible innovation, a thorough understanding of the potential…
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