Start-ups say that they can eliminate biases and create more skilled and diverse workplaces, but data science will probably still need human supervision.
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Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human?
The Great Decoupling: An Interview with Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
In this interview, Brynjolfsson and McAfee explore the implications of automation: who will win (workers with tech and creative skills), who will lose (the middle class), and how business should respond to the coming tech surge (develop ways to race with machines, not against them).
Now Algorithms Are Deciding Whom To Hire, Based On Voice
Algorithms are choosing who's the right fit to sell fast food or handle angry cable customers, by sizing up the human candidates' voices.
The Solace of Oblivion
The European Court of Justice, in a broadly worded directive, stated that all individuals in the countries within its jurisdiction had the right to prohibit Google from linking to items that were “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed and in the light of the time that has elapsed", and it's ramifications have yet to be understood.
The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
Ideally, ethics, law, and policy would line up, but often they don’t in the real world. Should we trust robotic cars to share our road, just because they are programmed to obey the law and avoid crashes? This article discusses moral problems with autonomous vehicles, as well as some of the questions we'll have to ask ourselves if we want to implement them.
Should Batman Kill the Joker? Perspectives from Five Famous Philosophers
A quick discussion on whether Batman should kill the Joker from the views of Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes, John Rawls, and Friedrich Nietzche.
Why computer voices are mostly female
The article looks at the possible reasons why computer voices skew female, inluding biology, history, and casting.
What is Ethics?
A brief primer on the definition of ethics.
“Anonymized” Data Really Isn’t—and Here’s Why Not
A computer science graduate student exposes that 87 percent of all Americans could be uniquely identified using only three bits of information, highlighting that almost all information can be "personal" when combined with enough other relevant bits of data. The article looks at examples of anonymization failures.
Scroogled
In science-fiction author Cory Doctorow's short story "Scroogled," a woman shrugs when she sees "Immigration--Powered by Google" on an airport sign, but that's just the beginning of the search giant's presence in a not-too-distant future.