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Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human?

|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)

Start-ups say that they can eliminate biases and create more skilled and diverse workplaces, but data science will probably still need human supervision.

URL ⇲ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/upshot/can-an-algorithm-…



The Great Decoupling: An Interview with Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

|| Future of Work || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)

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).

URL ⇲ https://hbr.org/2015/06/the-great-decoupling



Now Algorithms Are Deciding Whom To Hire, Based On Voice

|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

Algorithms are choosing who's the right fit to sell fast food or handle angry cable customers, by sizing up the human candidates' voices.

URL ⇲ https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/03/23/3…



The Solace of Oblivion

|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

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.

URL ⇲ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/solace-oblivi…



The Ethics of Autonomous Cars

|| Transportation Applications || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

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.

URL ⇲ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-…



Should Batman Kill the Joker? Perspectives from Five Famous Philosophers

|| General Ethics || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

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.

URL ⇲ https://comicsalliance.com/batman-kill-joker-philosophy/



Why computer voices are mostly female

|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

The article looks at the possible reasons why computer voices skew female, inluding biology, history, and casting.

URL ⇲ https://www.cnn.com/2011/10/21/tech/innovation/female-compu…



What is Ethics?

|| General Ethics || Report || Short (5 min or less)

A brief primer on the definition of ethics.

URL ⇲ https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decisio…



“Anonymized” Data Really Isn’t—and Here’s Why Not

|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

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.

URL ⇲ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-li…



Scroogled

|| Internet/Privacy || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)

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.

URL ⇲ https://cmci.colorado.edu/~cafi5706/Scroogled.pdf