Author: N/A; Publisher: United Nations News; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) development is especially problematic for countries where governments do not have the ability to effectively regulate consumer privacy or misinformation. International AI regulation will probably be necessary to curb the problem. Social media companies are incentivized to supply…
Author: Mona Chalabi; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: N/A. The following article warns us of the dangers of misleading statistics and the lack of accountability and incentives that private companies have to produce reliable stats. It encourages us to always check the data collection methods to validate any statistical claims. Misinformed or misguided insights start with poor data collection…
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 risks posed by these models is required. This report discusses 21 different types of ethics risks, as well as the sources of those risks and potential risk…
Author: Margo Gerritsen, Karen Hao; Publisher: Women in Data Science Podcast; Publication Year: N/A. In the following podcast episode, the focus is on Karen Hao who wrote an influential article in MIT Technology Review describing ethical tensions at Facebook. In this segment of the interview, Karen describes the conflict between Facebook’s need to grow and the artificial intelligence algorithm’s amplification of stories that contained misinformation…
Author: Ed Lamb; Publisher: The New Statesman; Publication Year: 2021. The following article addresses the recent documentary about chef and TV personality Anthony Bourdain, where artificial intelligence (AI) was used to recreate his voice in a documentary posthumously. Lamb makes the point that the only reason we know that AI was used to generate his voice was due to an interview with the director; otherwise, it was…
Author: N/A; Publisher: Business Standard; Publication Year: 2022. The following article describes how the social media platform called Pixstory is promoting more ethical behavior on the internet. The way the platform is designed discourages misinformation based on the usage of integrity scores and an algorithm that detects hate speech. With these features, they hope to avoid a…