new free online course: Practical Data Ethics, from fast ai & @DataInstituteSF covering disinformation, bias, ethical foundations, privacy & surveillance, silicon valley ecosystem, and algorithmic colonialism

cc: @craignewmark

http://ethics.fast.ai/ 

As @cfiesler showed w spreadsheet of >250 tech ethics syllabi & her accompanying meta-analysis, tech ethics is a sprawling subject. No single course can cover everything. And there are so many great courses out there!

https://medium.com/cuinfoscience/what-do-we-teach-when-we-teach-tech-ai-ethics-81059b710e11

https://cmci.colorado.edu/~cafi5706/SIGCSE2020_EthicsSyllabi.pdf

I spent a lot of time trying to cut my assigned reading list down to a reasonable length, as there are so many fantastic articles & papers on these topics. The following list is not at all exhaustive.

Some great articles on mis/disinformation:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/12/17/mediating-consent/ @noUpside

https://medium.com/@guillaumechaslot/how-algorithms-can-learn-to-discredit-the-media-d1360157c4fa @gchaslot

https://onezero.medium.com/the-simplest-way-to-spot-coronavirus-misinformation-on-social-media-4b7995448071 @holden

https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/black-feminists-alt-right-twitter-gamergate.html @heyydnae

https://psyarxiv.com/3n9u8/  @GordPennycook

Some great articles on bias & fairness:

@random_walker

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.09010  @timnitGebru

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10002  @harini824

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.02547  @samirpassi

https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.09749  @umaivodj

Some great articles on ethical foundations:

https://www.scu.edu/ethics-in-technology-practice/conceptual-frameworks/ @ShannonVallor

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/got-99-problems-but-a-trolley-aint-one/556805/ @ibogost

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-real-reason-fans-hate-the-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/ @zeynep

https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/Winner.pdf @langdonw

Some practical tools you can use towards tech ethics:

https://www.scu.edu/ethics-in-technology-practice/ethical-toolkit/ @ShannonVallor

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03993  @mmitchell_ai

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~djp3/classes/2011_01_INF134/papers/impl9-rev.pdf @EricPSB

https://techpolicylab.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/TowardInclusiveTechPolicyDesign.pdf @megyoung0

Some great articles on privacy & surveillance:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3599201 @alvarombedoya

https://urbanomnibus.net/2020/01/caught-in-the-spotlight/ @hypervisible

http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html

https://www.fastcompany.com/90447583/our-collective-privacy-problem-is-not-your-fault @LAM_Barrett

https://www.fastcompany.com/90317495/another-tax-on-the-poor-surrendering-privacy-for-survival @deciara

Some great articles on broader trends & factors related to data ethics:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611806/how-social-media-took-us-from-tahrir-square-to-donald-trump/ @zeynep

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3132758 @grimmelm

https://qz.com/1540608/the-problem-with-silicon-valleys-obsession-with-blitzscaling-growth/ @timoreilly

https://ali-alkhatib.com/blog/anthropological-intelligence @_alialkhatib

https://tomslee.github.io/publication/oup_private_sector_ai/ @whimsley

Some great articles re algorithmic colonialism:

https://reallifemag.com/the-algorithmic-colonization-of-africa/ @Abebab

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01679-5 @amymaxmen

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/facebook-and-the-new-colonialism/462393/ @AdrienneLaF

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wyes_kCE_WlctUtEQw5yuuJplddkSQtuGHBMxsjycGA/edit#heading=h.7bwzqcvjorcc @ruchowdh

You can find the lesson videos for the Applied Data Ethics course starting here. There's an icon near the top right of the video that opens lesson notes & transcript search. http://ethics.fast.ai/videos/?lesson=1

Here is the webpage version of my applied data ethics syllabus, which contains all the above links:

http://ethics.fast.ai/syllabus/ 

And here is a blogpost about the new applied data ethics course: https://www.fast.ai/2020/08/19/data-ethics/