Author: Yanmin Xu, Yitao Tao, Chunjiong Zhang, Mingxing Xie, Wengang Li, Jianjiang Tai; Publisher: Hindawi; Publication Year: 2022. The following article talks about how ethical considerations also need to be taken when using data for use of digital economies. This article discusses how digital economies are being introduced in parts of China, and what ethical issues can arise…
Author: Richard Van Noorden; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2020. In the following article, science journalist Richard Van Noorden discusses how facial recognition technology is being used for malicious purposes. The Chinese government has abused facial recognition technology to profile Uyghurs via mass surveillance (camera networks) in order to send them to “re-education camps.” The algorithm had been…
Author: Huw Roberts, Josh Cowls, Jessica Morley, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Vincent Wang, Luciano Floridi; Publisher: AI & Society ; Publication Year: 2021. In the following article, the authors focus on the socio-political background and policy debates that are shaping China’s artificial intelligence (AI) strategy. In particular, they analyze the main strategic areas in which China is investing in AI and the concurrent ethical debates that are delimiting its use…
Author: Eric Siegel; Publisher: Harvard Business Review; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how through the use of machine learning, we can figure out a lot about a person such as their race and gender just by taking in certain information about the individual and having an algorithm figure this out. The article mentioned that China is capable of using facial recognition to identify people who are part…