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When data broker SafeGraph got caught selling location information on Planned Parenthood visitors, it had a public relations trick up its sleeve. After the company agreed to remove family planning center data from its platforms in response to public outcry, CEO Auren Hoffman tried to flip the...
Researchers from Ireland, the UK and the US have warned that the growth in hyperscale AI training datasets threaten to propagate the worst aspects of their internet sources, contending that a recently-released academic dataset features ‘troublesome and explicit images and text pairs of rape, pornography, malign stereotypes, racist and ethnic slurs, and other extremely problematic […]
"relatively few papers mention ethics and privacy issues, or apply strategies to address ethical issues"
Experts say medical images like X-Rays and CT scans allow algorithms to determine a patient's race—and warn it could lead to bias and discrimination.
Some have been used in hospitals, despite not being properly tested. But the pandemic could help make medical AI better.
Research using online datasets from social media platforms continues to grow in prominence, but recent research suggests that platform users are sometimes uncom...
The disastrous mishandling of Rohingya refugees’ data by UNHCR deserves an apology, and measures to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
The biggest-ever study of real people’s mortgage data shows that predictive tools used to approve or reject loans are less accurate for minorities.
Recent controversies related to topics such as fake news, privacy, and algorithmic bias have prompted increased public scrutiny of digital technologies and soul-searching among many of the people...
Just 6% of respondents said they ensure AI is used ethically and responsibly by making development teams diverse.
Indigenous research ethics is a collective and diverse set of responses to the way in which research has historically been, and continues to be, something that has been done to, rather than with, Indigenous peoples and communities. More specifically, the wide range of writings on Indigenous research
The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem.
About a dozen health-care systems will co-own a private Seattle-based startup company that will anonymize data from millions of patients and make it available to researchers, health-care providers and pharmaceutical companies.