Ethics and AI
Musings on Data Ethics
A Medium Series of thoughts on the ethics of using data circa 2019
For data scientists, there does not seem to be an emergency in educating the public on the possibilities of “Big Data” and the future of Data Science. It has permeated pop culture for a while now, and many events flew way past news-worthiness to shake us at the core of our beliefs and capture the imagination. Whether it be by beating the best go players when experts were predicting decades before it could happen, by empowering robots to behave like living being coming out of Boston, by allowing major scale surveillance programs or threatening to unravel the fabric of our media institutions, it is clear that the ramifications of AI and Big Data touch the deepest foundations of how we conceive ourselves as humans.
It is not a surprise then to see mainstream TV shows focusing on dystopian futures ahead of us. One of the flagship of such programs is called Black Mirror, and if you haven’t watched any yet, I can only recommend.
In this series, we will reflect on the meaning of these advances for our societies, and what we should do as Data Scientist. I will attempt to keep it relatively non technical so as to keep discussions interdisciplinary and inclusive.
