The overarching topic should cover ethical issues that the tech industry faces with incorporating machine learning into their products and services. Machine learning can include artificial intelligence, and the use of
algorithms in decision making.
Highlight challenges and site examples. It should also question things like whether or not innovative tech firms can ensure their products don’t create ethical challenges that negatively impact their
customers or the world at large, and if not - what can they do about it.
Here is an excerpt from a piece that is an excellent example:
“increasingly, algorithms and the automation of certain processes are being incorporated into important decision-making pipelines. Human resources departments now routinely use statistical models trained via
machine learning to guide hiring and compensation decisions. Lenders increasingly use algorithms to estimate
credit risk. And a number of state and local governments now use machine learning to inform bail and parole
decisions, and to guide police deployments. Society must continue to demand that important decisions be fair,
private, and transparent even as they become increasingly automated.”
Retrieved from: https://www.brookings.edu/research/ethical-algorithm-design-should-guide-technologyregulation/
Another great example:
"It is becoming increasingly accepted that the firms who design and implement technology have moral
obligations to proactively address problematic assumptions behind, and outcomes of, new digital
technologies."
Retrieved from: Business and the Ethical Implications of Technology: Introduction to the Symposium
Kirsten Martin, Katie Shilton & Jeffery Smith
Journal of Business Ethics volume 160, pages307–317(2019)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-019-04213-9
Other references:
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10551-018-3921-3.pdf
https://hbr.org/2020/10/a-practical-guide-to-building-ethical-ai
https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/artificial-intelligence-systems-unethical-humanbias_in_5e256b92c5b673621f78de5a
https://www.forbes.com/sites/intelai/2019/03/27/the-biggest-ai-ethical-issues-businesses-need-to-addressnowand-how/?sh=69452542748e
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/who-should-stop-unethical-ai
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