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CloudFlare has changed expectations of the moral obligations of technology companies.
Rather than enshrining mottos like “data is the new oil” into the vocabulary of tomorrow’s future technology leaders, perhaps we should emphasize “privacy first” and focus on how companies can absolutely minimize the data they collect to ensure a more privacy-protecting and less Orwellian future.
Nice application of schools of ethics to ethical reasoning, and why "an ethics code" doesn't solve the problem.
An exhaustive reference to problems seen in real-world data along with suggestions on how to resolve them. - GitHub - Quartz/bad-data-guide: An exhaustive reference to problems seen in real-world d...
LOTS of data on the data Big Tech holds on us. CC-licensed, so could use illos in class.
We’ve conflated data with truth. And this has dangerous implications for our ability to understand, explain, and improve the things we care about.
Externalities.
Machine-learning algorithms find and apply patterns in data. And they pretty much run the world.
Ever more Americans are using digital cameras to keep an eye on elderly relatives who live in nursing homes. This surveillance may violate patients’ privacy and demoralize their caretakers.
FFS FACEBOOK
Public schools across the US continue to spend millions implementing AI-powered surveillance solutions alleged to prevent or mitigate violence. The only problem: most of them don’t work. US schools now rival China’s when it comes to ubiquit
From healthcare to customer service, anonymised data is vital to improving the world around us. But it is all too easy to reverse engineer.
At least China is honest about its surveillance dystopia. In Trump’s America, we pretend Palantir isn’t worse.
Ethics washing is unethical, but some AI companies aren't afraid to engage in the practice. Here are some ways to avoid it.
When will we finally learn we cannot predict people’s character from their appearance?
Would be interesting to analyze this for its approach to ethics. I see a lot of deontology.
Ethics smell: "His defense of Nacho boiled down to this: It’s just the way the Internet works."
Some lawmakers, seeking to hold companies accountable for the way they collect and profit from our personal information, are pushing a new idea: requiring companies to report a dollar value for the
Opinion: I worked on AI for YouTube’s "recommended for you" feature. We underestimated how the algorithms could go terribly wrong.