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Critics Raise Alarm Over Big Tech’s Most Powerful Tools
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Author: Richard Water; Publisher: Financial Times; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how big tech companies are using “Dark Patterns” in order to nudge their userbase into certain patterns of behavior. In a “race to the bottom” for market share and profits, these algorithms are based on reinforcement learning which creates a feedback loop…
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3 Questions: Designing Software for Research Ethics
2022, Code of Ethics, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Education & Training, Legal & Policy, News Article, Notable Peoplelnbressa
Author: Rachel Gordon; Publisher: MIT News; Publication Year: 2022. The following article features the author interviewing Jonathan Zong, a computer scientist Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), also the creator of the app Bartleby. Bartleby is a system for debriefing research participants after being involved in social media research. Using Bartleby, researchers can…
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Fighting Bias in AI With Ethics Training
2022, Bias, Blog Article, Communities of Practice, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Education & Traininglnbressa
Author: Paul Mah; Publisher: CDO Trends; Publication Year: 2022. The following article describes how according to a recent study, over $77.5 billion was invested in artificial intelligence (AI) in 2021. But with the growth of AI, the concern about bias has grown as well. Even though organizations are not actively trying to perpetuate and amplify…
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The Google Engineer Who Thinks the Company’s AI has Come to Life
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Author: Nitasha Tiku; Publisher: The Washington Post; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses the Google engineer who was fired because he violated security and data policies by publicly accusing their artificial intelligence (AI) robot of being sentient. Blake Lemoine was one of the engineers who did testing with this AI robot, and he was…
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Data Ethics in Tech; Here’s Why It’s So Hard
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Author: Nathan Kinch; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses the importance of making an actionable data ethics framework, why it is so difficult for companies to do so, and ways to get started. This article states that specificity is one of the most important parts of of a framework in order to…
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The Basics of Ethical Data Management for Technologists
2020, Bias, Blog Article, Code of Ethics, Communities of Practice, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Notable Peoplelnbressa
Author: Mark Feffer; Publisher: Dice; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses ethical data usage in the real world. There are many opportunities for employees of a particular company to view detailed data on an individual. For instance, around 150 “Google employees have access to medical data from millions of patients across 21 states.” Just…
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How Data Brokers Sold My Identity
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Author: Madhumita Murgia; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: 2017. In the following talk, Madhumita discusses how data privacy is still a huge issue. Even though data is anonymized there are still key identifying information such as gender, zip code, etc. that can narrow down the potential people it could be. When this data is shared and…
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Increasing Transparency in Perspective’s Machine Learning Models
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Author: Lucy Vasserman, John Cassidy; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how the Jigsaw team at Google analyzed Perspective API’s toxicity model, which gives toxicity scores to online comments from a variety of sources. In the training data, these comments are rated by humans, who score the models on a toxicity scale…
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Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them
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Author: Khari Johnson; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2022. The following article identifies an ongoing problem in many search based algorithms in regards to using the correct name for a transgender individual. “Deadnaming” is the incorrect use of an individual’s pre-transition name. He documents how the failure to recognize this flaw in many algorithms including google…
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At Google Cloud, A.I. Ethics Requires ‘Iced Tea’ and ‘Lemonaid’
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Author: Jeremy Kahn; Publisher: Fortune; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how in Google’s Cloud business, manufacturing customers desired using Google’s computer vision to search for and detect defects in their products on their assembly lines. However, many of these customers did not have enough data to train a defect detector because these defects…
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