AI Ethics #36: Top 10 AI Ethics Posts of 2020
AI Ethics #36: Top 10 AI Ethics Posts of 2020
Happy Holidays!
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Hope you are all enjoying the holiday season and taking some time to reflect on 2020.
We’ve been convening the AI ethics community for a little over 3.5 years now and it has truly grown from being a local community effort in Montreal to something that now has your participation amongst many others from around the world spanning all geographic regions of the globe and all walks of life.
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Our Top 10 Most Popular Posts of 2020:
Overview of AI Ethics research & reporting between June and October 2020.
Overview of AI Ethics research & reporting between March and June 2020.
This short guide serves as both an introduction to AI ethics and social science and anthropological perspectives on the development of AI.
In this paper, the authors (Cave and Dihal) examine “how the ideology of race shapes connections and portrayals of artificial intelligence (AI),” contributing to an increasing number of studies and books looking at the connections between race and technology.
This paper asserts that social robots and empathizing with social robots may negatively affect our ability to empathize with other humans.
This op-ed argues that attention needs to be paid to the character of people involved in AI, and the moral virtues that they possess.
This is a summary + review of Andrew Ng’s non-technical course AI For Everyone, available on Coursera.
This explainer was written in response to colleagues’ requests to know more about temporal bias in AI ethics.
Translating lofty principles into actionable conventions can help address the real challenges in AI Ethics, rather than treating it as something that is to be “solved”.
To protect and prevent harm against vulnerable groups, the authors recommend adopting a decolonial critical approach in AI to gain better foresight and ethical judgement towards advances in the field.
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