Data's Day of Reckoning

  • Ethical data practices
    • Important in real-world products
    • Not exist in college edjucation
  • Ethics need to be part of an organization’s culture
    • Empower individuals to stop
    • Escalate issues without the fear of retaliation
    • Ethical challenges in hiring process
    • Including ethical impact in product review
    • Reflect diversity in teams
    • Clear ethical principle
  • Regulations
    • Usually lags the pace of innovations
    • Make policy without experts with necessary technical background
    • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in European Union
    • Digital privacy law in California
  • Conclusions & Key Takeaways
    • Ethical training for professionals
    • Ethical guideline and culture
    • Regulations
    • “Talk about Ethics!” for future

A Mulching Proposal: Ethics in Algorithmic Systems

Introduction

  • Algorithmic systems are ubiquitous
    FAT Framework
    The Problem
  • World-hunger due to low amounts of fertile soil to grow food