Kate Crawford - We need a sweeping debate about ethics...

We need a sweeping debate about ethics, boundaries, and regulation for location data technologies.

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Author Profession: Writer

Nationality: Australian

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About, Boundaries, Data, Debate, Ethics, Location, Need, Regulation, Sweeping, Technologies

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With big data comes big responsibilities.

Data Big Responsibilities

Books about technology start-ups have a pattern. First, there's the grand vision of the founders, then the heroic journey of producing new worlds from all-night coding and caffeine abuse, and finally, the grand finale: immense wealth and secular sainthood. Let's call it the Jobs Narrative.

Technology Journey Vision New

Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters - from who designs it to who sits on the company boards and which ethical perspectives are included.

Intelligence Will Company Like

Biases and blind spots exist in big data as much as they do in individual perceptions and experiences. Yet there is a problematic belief that bigger data is always better data and that correlation is as good as causation.

Good Better Blind Data

If you're not thinking about the way systemic bias can be propagated through the criminal justice system or predictive policing, then it's very likely that, if you're designing a system based on historical data, you're going to be perpetuating those biases.

You Justice Thinking Way

Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.

Design Voice Meaning Numbers

We urgently need more due process with the algorithmic systems influencing our lives. If you are given a score that jeopardizes your ability to get a job, housing, or education, you should have the right to see that data, know how it was generated, and be able to correct errors and contest the decision.

Education You Decision Job

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

Speak Design Matter Numbers

Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets.

History Will Data Always

If you have rooms that are very homogeneous, that have all had the same life experiences and educational backgrounds, and they're all relatively wealthy, their perspective on the world is going to mirror what they already know. That can be dangerous when we're making systems that will affect so many diverse populations.

Life Mirror You Perspective

We should have equivalent due-process protections for algorithmic decisions as for human decisions.

Decisions Human Should Equivalent

There is no quick technical fix for a social problem.

Problem Fix Social Technical

Big data sets are never complete.

Never Data Big Complete

The amount of money and industrial energy that has been put into accelerating AI code has meant that there hasn't been as much energy put into thinking about social, economic, ethical frameworks for these systems. We think there's a very urgent need for this to happen faster.

Money Thinking AI Think

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