When an Algorithm Helps Send You to Prison
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Long (10+ min)
A case involving a biased computer program designed to assign sentences.
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She’s 26, and Brought Down Uber’s C.E.O. What’s Next?
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Interview with Susan Fowler, the author of a blog post that exposed problematic behaviour during her time at Uber.
The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A discussion about the outlook of what misinformation might look like in the coming decade.
A Series of Delays and Major Errors Led to Massive Equifax Breach
|| Security || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A series of costly delays and crucial errors caused Equifax to remain unprotected for months against one of the most severe Web application vulnerabilities in years, the former CEO for the credit reporting service said in written testimony investigating the massive breach that
Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Long (10+ min)
Author Jean M. Twenge examines how smartphone and tablet access has impacted the "iGen" (those who grew up around these technologies), including its impact on loneliness, depression, sleep, and other aspects.
We're Building a Dystopia Just to Make People Click on Ads
|| Internet/Privacy || Video || Long (10+ min)
A techno-sociologist discusses "persuasion architecture", or how AI can be used to conrol people's actions, as well as what might be done in response.
Machines Taught by Photos Learn a Sexist View of Women
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A discussion around how gender bias can be proliferated through AI machines.
The Actual Science of James Damore's Google Memo
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
The science in Damore’s memo is still very much in play, and his analysis of its implications is at best politically naive and at worst dangerous.
Please don't edit me out
|| Health and Medical Applications Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
An argument against human gene editing technology being used to edit out disabilities.
Rise of the racist robots – how AI is learning all our worst impulses
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
When we feed machines data that reflects our prejudices, they mimic them – from antisemitic chatbots to racially biased software. Does a horrifying future await people forced to live at the mercy of algorithms?
Scariest Thing About Cyberwarfare: No Rules of Engagement
|| Robotics Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber: How bias clouds our thinking about diversity and inclusion
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Report || Long (10+ min)
James Damore's Google Memo. The core arguments: Men and women have psychological differences that are a result of their underlying biology. Those differences make them differently suited to and interested in the work that is core to Google.
With her blog post about toxic bro-culture at Uber, Susan Fowler proved that one person can make a difference
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Why Companies Like Uber Get Away With Bad Behavior
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
The ride-sharing giant was the subject of a withering report, but its values and its hard-driven C.E.O. remain in place.
The Secret Social Media Lives of Teenagers
|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Private groups - like the one used by students whose Harvard acceptances were recently rescinded - may offer a false sense of confidence.
Ethical Reflection Modules for CS 1
|| Algorithmic Bias || Module || Short (5 min or less)
Evan Peck, Associate Professor at Bucknell University's teaching modules. His lesson plan connect ethics values to code for CS 1 students, and is centred around MIT's Moral Machine.
Media Manipulation & Disinformation Online
|| Misinformation || Report || Long (10+ min)
A report about media manipulation, including case studies and syllabus.
Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
An analysis of premiums and payouts in California, Illinois, Texas and Missouri shows that some major insurers charge minority neighborhoods as much as 30 percent more than other areas with similar accident costs.
Why Is Silicon Valley So Awful to Women?
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
Information Wars: A Window into the Alternative Media Ecosystem
|| Misinformation || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
About a University of Washington research study looking at how people spread rumors online during crisis events, from natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes as well as man-made events such as mass shootings and terrorist attacks.The study primarily focused on Twitte