ethics
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The Movement to Hold AI Accountable Gains More Steam
A forthcoming report by the Algorithmic Justice League (AJL), a private nonprofit, recommends requiring disclosure when an AI model is…
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Ex-Googler Timnit Gebru Starts Her Own AI Research Center
One year ago Google artificial intelligence researcher Timnit Gebru tweeted, “I was fired” and ignited a controversy over the freedom…
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RE:WIRED 2021: Timnit Gebru Says Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down
Artificial intelligence researchers are facing a problem of accountability: How do you try to ensure decisions are responsible when the…
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This Program Can Give AI a Sense of Ethics—Sometimes
Delphi taps the fruits of recent advances in AI and language. Feeding very large amounts of text to algorithms that…
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Can Tech Ethics Be Learned—or Is Society Doomed?
Hey folks. It’s Lauren Goode here, filling in for Steven Levy—who last I heard was foil-boarding up at Lake Tahoe…
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Alondra Nelson Wants to Make Science and Tech More Just
The pandemic taught us a lesson that we needed to learn again, says Alondra Nelson: Science and technology have everything…
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What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru
In April 1998, two Stanford grad students named Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented an algorithm called PageRank at a…
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