Author: Shubnam Sharma; Publisher: UKTN; Publication Year: 2021. In the following article, data ethics deals with the moral obligations of gathering, protecting, and using personally identifiable information, and how it affects individuals. Upon surveying 1,000 British employees working in the field of data analytics, 42% of them said that it is not a priority for them in their careers. This is problematic as experts contend that…
Author: Sarah Koa; Publisher: KrASIA; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how the benefits of self-driving cars range from increased mobility to efficiency and convenience. These cars can also reduce crashes, lower carbon emissions, and increase road safety. No car today is completely automatic and with some of the issues automatic cars present currently, completely automatic cars probably will…
Author: Michelle N. Meyer; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2014. The following article describes how for one week in 2012, Facebook data scientists tested the effect of making News Feeds both more positive and less positive. Although the statistically significant findings were of small order, they could matter given the number of daily active users on Facebook. The test found that when a user’s News Feed was more…
Author: David B. Larson, David C. Magnus, Matthew P. Lungren, Nigam H. Shah, Curtis P. Langlotz; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses data ownership of clinical imaging data. The authors believe that once data have been used for clinical purposes, individuals have the moral obligation to contribute to the development of better treatments for future patients. Individuals with access to the data become stewards with the responsibility of protecting the…
Author: Kirsten Martin; Publisher: Auerbach Publications; Publication Year: 2022. The following book talks about the ethics of data and analytics. It talks about how every decision made in todays businesses has a moral component since it affects how people are treated, how regulations are followed or broken, how fairly they are treated, and how their rights are expanded or restricted. In a nutshell, big data and analytics has given rise to a…
Author: Peter Railton; Publisher: Philosophy Bites on Podcast Addict; Publication Year: 2022. The following podcast episode talks about the nature of AI from a philosophical lens and asks what kind of moral responsibility should we give to AI. The episode reckons with the question of whether these entities actually have a moral responsibility. The philosopher, Peter Railton, talks about the many issues and…