AI Ethics
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Related: Algorithmic Bias · Google · AI Safety · Responsible AI · Algorithmic Fairness · Openai · Timnit Gebru · Microsoft
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- 160k+ high school students will only graduate if a statistical model allows them to — Critique of IB using statistical model to assign high-stakes graduation grades
- A Google researcher – who said she was fired after pointing out biases in AI – says companies won't 'self-regulate' because of the AI 'gold rush' — Timnit Gebru warns AI gold rush prevents corporate self-regulation on bias
- ACM FAccT — Interdisciplinary conference on fairness accountability transparency in algorithmic systems
- AI Ethics And AI Law Fretting Over Worker Burnout In The Ardent Pursuit Of Responsible AI — Burnout dynamics facing AI ethics specialists inside organizations
- AI Virtues As Missing Bedrock Ingredient For Responsible AI Says AI Ethics And AI Law — Virtue ethics framework proposed as foundation for AI ethics principles
- Algorithmic Dictatorship — Critical essay arguing algorithms enable authoritarian social control
- Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion — Flawed universal emotion theory underpins commercial AI affect recognition
- Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans — Pew 2018 expert canvassing on AI's impact on human life by 2030
- Big Tech's guide to talking about AI ethics — Satirical glossary exposing big tech AI ethics language as corporate deflection
- Cigna Sued Over Algorithm Allegedly Used To Deny Coverage To Patients — Cigna PXDX algorithm automatically denied insurance claims without physician review
- Crisis Text Line, from my perspective — Board member's ethical framework for Crisis Text Line data-sharing controversy
- Duolingo CEO Expresses Astonishment That People Were Mad When He Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI — Duolingo CEO backlash after announcing AI contractor replacement strategy
- Elon Musk Has Fired Twitter's 'Ethical AI' Team — Elon Musk eliminates Twitter's ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability team
- Friar Tech: The Vatican's top AI expert who advises Silicon Valley — Vatican Franciscan friar advising Pope Francis and Silicon Valley on AI ethics
- GitHub - daviddao/awful-ai: Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness — Curated list cataloguing harmful and unethical real-world AI deployments
- Google says it's committed to ethical AI research. Its ethical AI team isn't so sure. — Google ethical AI team dysfunction after Timnit Gebru firing
- Home - AI Now Institute — AI Now Institute homepage covering AI power, regulation, and accountability
- Look behind the curtain: Don't be dazzled by claims of 'artificial intelligence' | Op-Ed — Emily Bender op-ed demystifying AI as probabilistic pattern matching
- Major Universities Are Using Race as a "High Impact Predictor" of Student Success – The Markup — EAB Navigate advising software uses race to predict student dropout risk
- Maybe showing off an AI-generated fake TV episode during a writers' strike is a bad idea — Fable Studios demos AI TV showrunner agent during Hollywood writers strike
- New Journal: Philosophy of AI - Daily Nous — New open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to philosophy of artificial intelligence
- Participation-washing could be the next dangerous fad in machine learning — Critique of performative participation as insufficient fix for ML injustice
- Stanford Director: AI Scientists' "Frontal Cortex Is Massively Underdeveloped — Stanford HAI director criticizing AI researchers' ethical immaturity
- Stop talking about AI ethics. It's time to talk about power. — Kate Crawford argues AI must be analyzed as material power, not just ethics
- The Kidney Transplant Algorithm's Surprising Lessons for Ethical A.I. — Kidney allocation algorithm as model for inclusive AI governance
- The Myth of Artificial Intelligence - The American Prospect — Critical review of Kissinger-Schmidt-Huttenlocher book as Big Tech propaganda
- The Reputational Risks of AI — Framework for diagnosing and responding to AI reputational failures
- These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI — Women researchers warned of AI bias harms
- Unauthorized "David Attenborough" AI clone narrates developer's life, goes viral — GPT-4V plus ElevenLabs creates unauthorized celebrity voice clone
- UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges — UnitedHealth AI algorithm denying Medicare elderly rehab care wrongfully
- Unraveling Techno-Solutionism: How I Fell out of Love with "Ethical" Machine Learning — Critique of naive belief that technology inherently solves societal problems
- Who Should Stop Unethical A.I.? — Debate over ethics review mechanisms for AI research publication