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Bringing Principles of Ethics to AI and Drug Design
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Author: Helen Santoro; Publisher: Scope; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) has proven potent in analyzing historical medical data, chemical compound data, and using it to predict viable treatments. As a result, researchers are advocating for further implementation of machine learning in drug development, which they believe will increase speed…
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How an Algorithm Meant to Help Parents Could Target Poor Families Instead
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Author: Elizabeth Brico; Publisher: Talk Poverty; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses an algorithm that is being implemented in Allegheny County, PA that is intended to assist its child welfare programs by predicting which families/parents may be at risk of maltreating a child and intervening with resources. The new algorithm is similar to an…
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The Ethical Data Scientist
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Author: Cathy O’Neil; Publisher: Slate; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses when deciding which variables to include in a model, some factors (race, etc.) can be easily excluded to ensure that racial bias in data as a result of systemic racism does not play a role in how the model makes predictions. However, there…
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What Gets Counted Counts
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Author: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2020. The following book chapter considers how within data science, practitioners are used to seeing the world in 1s and 0s – in fact, models try to predict which observations will be 1s, and which will be 0s. But this article emphasizes the notion…
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Algorithmic Injustice: A Relational Ethics Approach
Author: Abeba Dirhane; Publisher: CellPress Open Access; Publication Year: 2021. The following paper focuses on how it has become trivial to point out that algorithmic systems increasingly pervade the social sphere. Improved efficiency—the hallmark of these systems—drives their mass integration into day-to-day life. However, as a robust body of research in the area of algorithmic…
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Reducing Bias in AI-Based Financial Services
2020, Banking & Finance, Bias, Communities of Practice, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Education & Training, Frameworks, Industry-Specific, News Articlelnbressa
Author: Aaron Klein; Publisher: The Brookings Institution; Publication Year: 2020. The following paper goes in depth regarding why establishing and maintaining proper data governance programs and ethical data frameworks are so important to financial institutions. As AI technologies have grown to more prominence, so have issues that have arisen with them. There have already been…
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