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A New Colonial World Order
Read moreThis is an excerpt from AI Ethics Weekly issue dated April 22, 2022. As mask mandates are being abandoned recklessly and COVID-19 cases continue to surge, please stay healthy and safe during this ongoing pandemic. Privacy is dead as it turns out video doorbell cameras can record audio from 20 to 25 feet away according to Consumer Reports, schools are…
AI Ethics Bookchat – September 2020: Meet Author Virginia Eubanks ‘Automating Inequality’
Read moreIn September, we invited Virginia Eubanks @PopTechWorks, the reknowned scholar and author of “Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor” to discuss her powerful book. #AIEthics #TwitterBookChat Mia Shah-Dand: Thanks for joining us, Virginia! As someone who grew up poor, your book resonates with me on a very personal level. How did your personal trauma and…
All Tech is Trash
Read moreIt all started when Colin Madland @colinmadland started investigating how to keep a colleague’s head from getting virtually amputated when using virtual background on Zoom and finally realized the disturbing reason why it was happening. More on his discovery here. Along the way, on that thread and many others across Twitter, another disturbing realization was surfacing. As it turns out,…
Dr. Timnit Gebru at #WAIE2020 reflection by Rebekah Tweed
Read more“How are you doing?” Dr. Timnit Gebru’s fireside chat with Lighthouse3 CEO Mia Shah-Dand began with this personal check-in that’s increasingly necessary during such troubled times. This present moment in our history is full of struggles for all of us, and although she was quick to point out that others have it far worse than she does, it is admittedly…
AI Ethics Book Chat – June 2020: Meet Author Dr.Safiya Noble ‘Algorithms of Oppression’
Read moreIn our June AI Ethics Book Chat, we invited author and scholar Dr. Safiya Noble @SafiyaNoble to discuss their powerful book “Algorithms of Oppression.” Mia Shah-Dand: Please tell us more about your first encounter with racism in search that inspired your powerful book? Safiya Noble: to do research in this area. I spent a lot of time thinking about this…
AI Ethics Book Chat – May 2020: Meet Author Meredith Broussard ‘Artificial Unintelligence’
Read moreOn Sunday May 31, we invited Meredith Broussard @MerBroussard, author of “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World” to our monthly AI Ethics Twitter Book Chat to discuss the inner workings and outer limits of technology Mia Shah-Dand: Welcome and thank you for joining us. Let’s start with the basic premise of your book. Why do humans find it so…
April AI Ethics Book Chat – Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Read moreFor our April 2020 AI Ethics Twitter Chat we invited Sasha Costanza-Chock discuss their powerful book on a very timely topic “Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need”. Buy the book => https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/design-justice Mia Dand: Hello Sasha and welcome! What inspired you to write this book? Sasha Costanza-Chock: Thanks Mia for having me! So, Design Justice is…
AI Ethics Twitter Chat – April 2020: Spotlight on China
Read moreFor our April AI Ethics Twitter Chat we invited Alice Xiang, Head of Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability (FTA) Research @PartnershipAI and Visiting Scholar, Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University, Beijing (2019) Mia Dand: Welcome Alice! Glad you could join us. Every region has its own specific concerns about the responsible use of AI. What are top ethical issues in…
Lighthouse3 launches AI Ethics Mentoring and Externships to Support Women and Non-Binary Community during COVID-19 pandemic
Read moreWomen in AI Ethics™ founder launches AI Ethics Mentoring and Externship programs for COVID-19 pandemic. Oakland, Calif: According to the ILO report 2018, women do the bulk of unpaid care work in homes across the world, a workload that has intensified during this pandemic. This includes older women caring for frail partners, children, and grandchildren. For those women able to…
AI Ethics Twitter Chat – March 2020: Fact vs. Fiction
Read moreFor our March AI Ethics Twitter chat, we took a brief break from the pandemic for an insightful discussion on the reality vs. myths in AI with our expert guest, Dr. Dagmar Monett, professor of Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence at the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Here’s a summary of our chat. #1 Fact or Fiction? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is…
AI Ethics Twitter Chat – Feb 2020: Deconstructing Deepfakes
Read moreFor our February AI Ethics Twitter Chat, we invited expert guest, Dr. Brandie Nonnecke, Founding Director, Citris Policy Lab at UC Berkeley to discuss “Deconstructing Deepfakes”. Mia Dand: Dr. Nonnecke, Welcome and let’s start off with the basics, what are deepfakes? Dr. Brandie Nonnecke: “Deepfakes” are deceptive audio or visual media created with AI to depict real people saying or…
100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Expands Globally with Regional Chapters
Read moreEthics is not glamorous work. It is painstakingly hard to define what ethical or responsible technologies look like, let alone build the necessary frameworks to nudge biased and self-serving organizations to follow the ethical yellow brick road. It’s an open dirty secret that no one gets awards for slowing things down by doing the right thing in the tech world,…
AI Ethics Twitter Chat – Jan 2020: Moving from Talk to Action
Read moreIn our monthly AI Ethics Twitter Chat for January, we invited Dr. Caitlin McDonald, award-winning scholar and Digital Anthropologist at Leading Edge Forum to discuss how organizations can take AI Ethics from Talk to Action. Here are key highlights from our very insightful chat. Mia Dand: Let’s start with the basics, why does ethics in AI matter? What are some…
100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics for 2020
Read moreThe mission of Women in AI Ethics (WAIE) initiative is to recognize and empower brilliant women working on the ethics of AI. It was heartening to see many leaders from the 2019 Women in AI Ethics list like Joy Buolamwini, Kathy Baxter, Safiya Noble, Meeri Haataja, and many others who continue to lead the way and set a high bar…
How do we use AI for Good?
Read moreFor our August Twitter Chat on AI Ethics, we invited Maria Luciana Axente(@Maria Luciana Axente), program driver for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI for Good lead at PwC UK to discuss how we can use Artificial Intelligence for Good. Mia Dand: Thank you so much for joining us today, Maria. Let’s start off with the basics. What does AI for Good mean? Maria Luciana…
Join us for an Inspiring Evening with Women in AI Ethics in San Francisco
Read moreNo discussion about Artificial Intelligence (AI) is complete without a diverse set of voices. Join us for an inspiring evening where we will hear from talented women in the field of AI ethics share their experience, and network with others working hard to prevent unintended risks for AI applications. This meetup is inspired by the “100 Women in AI Ethics”…
“100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” Comes to Life at Oxford in Fall 2019
Read moreOn October 29, 2018, Mia Dand, CEO of Lighthouse3 published a list of “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” to raise awareness and highlight the brilliant women working hard to save humanity from the negative consequences of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Inspired by Mia’s work, on September 16th, 2019, ORBIT (Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT) is bringing together some of…
Global Companies Need a Center of Excellence for Ethical AI
Read moreIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” No matter how you choose to describe our current age, there’s little doubt we are living in very consequential times and nowhere is it more apparent than in the rapid proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to Harvard Business…
It’s not your imagination. Amazon employees are listening to your private conversations.
Read moreToday in Ethics of AI/ML – 4/10/19 What’s the story? Technology reporters uncovered that Amazon Inc. employees and workers listen to voice recordings of users, captured by its Echo speaker devices. These recordings are used to train and improve the machine learning/AI software’s accuracy in understanding and responding to human commands. What does it mean? According to privacy experts, the…
100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics You Should Follow in 2019 and beyond
Read moreAs we edge closer to the end of a very eventful year, it seemed like a good time for a follow up to the 12 Amazing Women in AI Ethics to Follow in 2018 post, which (as some pointed out) left out many deserving voices who are furthering the cause of Ethical and Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI). We live in…
6 Reasons AI Ethics in Corporations is All Talk and No Action
Read moreArtificial Intelligence (AI) has permeated every industry ranging from finance to automotive and even fashion. The fear of terrifying human-like sentient machines perpetuated by Hollywood combined with dire warnings from experts has led to a flurry of well-deserved buzz around the ethics of AI. The corporate world has responded with a slow trickle of announcements touting their brand-new AI ethical…
12 Organizations Saving Humanity from the Dark Side of AI
Read moreArtificial Intelligence (AI) can help do many incredible things, from detecting cancer to driving our cars but it also raises many questions and poses new challenges. Stephen Hawking, the renowned physicist once told the BBC, “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at…
12 Amazing Women in AI and Ethics to Follow in 2018
Read moreThe possibility of creating sentient machines that can think and act like humans raises many ethical issues. We’re already encountering reinforced human bias in AI algorithms and with autonomous “killer” robots looming on the horizon, an open discussion on the perils of unchecked AI is even more imperative. In celebration of Women’s History Month, we highlighted 12 brilliant women leading…