Leading thinkers from business, government, civil society, and academia explore and debate ethics in the age of the quantified society. What role do ethics play in guiding existing efforts to develop and deploy data and information technologies? Does data ethics need to develop as a field to help guide policy, research, and practice — just as bioethics did in order to guide medicine and biology? Why or why not?
aspen institute
latest – june 2014:
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sept 2014 – Eric Liu:
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feb 2016
What role do ethics play in guiding existing efforts to develop data and info technologies? https://t.co/c17QHmTMSzhttps://t.co/Nr6bt5xSSD
Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/aspenideas/status/701846375076483073
DATA ETHICS IN THE AGE OF THE QUANTIFIED SOCIETY
http://www.aspenideas.org/session/data-ethics-age-quantified-society
data telling you just about youngest wealthiest – kate
data is always this act of imagination – form of creativity and selection – kate
what is data and where does it come from – ashkan
6 min – kindle unlimited – you pay a monthly fee you get bookish ness….collects new data.. author gets paid according to number of pages read – great ie of data where none previously existed… librarians.. protecting your right to read w/o govt knowing what you read.. another affect – i – as author – can change book – seeing they stopped at p 11. et al.. – jonathan
10 min – on public concern of experimentation.. now set of quite diff capacities… not traditionally a human subjects data position… so how does data ethics get formed like bio ethics got formed – kate
12 min – on fb experimet – goldilocks and two bears .. 1 bear: zimbardo prisoner exp – uni’s ability to pull stuff out of us 2 bear: matter of course that fb test homepage to see what works better.. these 2 bears run into each other.. collide w/experiment called emotional contagium.. salt w/happy share happy, salt w/sad share sad, outrage w/in academy that there had not been consent – jonathan
15 min – 3rd bear – review ing what you’re doing w/in – accountability – then on to voting tweaked by fb… the capacity for very centralized sm platforms… – kate
17 min – a broader trend of trust of algorithms… actually nothing inherent to design or oversight mech’s that guarantee that… ie: map routes.. what if later find mapping service was linked to ads and trying to plan your route … we put a lot of faith/trust into systems… – ashkan
20 min – to what extent is transparency going to solve the problem – alexis
it’s a start – ie: food labeling… transparency but has to go beyond that ie: can’s have poison in it… we need to see if there’s an equivalent in this data ness.. – ashkan
22 min – too easy to lean on transparency and say you’re done – i like that we’ve already gone beyond experimentation.. and now beyond transparency.. saying.. you know .. maybe you should look out for us a little bit.. we ought to have some sense of fiduciary responsibility – ie: at least not screw your users over – jonathan
24 min – can’t we go a step further… than saying hey have our best interest at heart… we need something closer to due process… and fair access… – kate
26 min – sometimes the bias is in the data.. sometimes in the algo’s.. sometimes unintentional.. just in situation.. – ashkan
32 min – let’s construct ethical guidelines for data scientists – kate
37 min – 3 days ago – fitbit data used to disprove a rape case – problem.. easy to confuse fitbit – data that is unrealiable.. easily gamed..- kate
reason we need to not only change the data we focus on .. ie: self-talk as data but also the whole system… so that we’re not.. ie: science of people in schools.. but rather.. us…
41 min – big data’s promise – to be less unsure/uncertain.. – jonathan
? whoa..
43 min – q: how to control what data govt uses
overwhelming ness of data.. unhinging reason you’re collecting data in first place… – kate
not just govt collecting more data – more people aggregating/bringing together.. so in that form.. everyone wants to use it – ashkan
so again – away from shiny.. distracting charts/numbers/et al.. and toward data that matters… st as data
46 min – unlike nuclear waste.. we can snap our fingers and make it go away.. why are we availing ourselves of that opportunity.. – jonathan
50 min – on the difficulty on masking data… people’s actions don’t reflect that they care about data use and privacy in data… so policy makers don’t change… – ashkan
52 min – this is a systemic problem.. that seeks a systemic solution – jonathan
a nother way
ie: ps in the open et al
be you. 