Ethics Homeworks

Ethics HW 3

Review the CARVE ethical principals.

Read the article below under Assignment 3 with your project team number.

Respond to the following prompts on Moodle.

  1. Give a general overview of the article.

  2. Consider the CARVE principals. What moral principals would you say were violated for the people the article discusses were or could be affected?

Ethics HW 2

Review the CARVE ethical principals.

Read the article below under Assignment 2 with your project team number.

Respond to the following prompts on Moodle.

  1. Give a general overview of the article.

  2. Consider the CARVE principals. What moral principals would you say were violated for the people the article discusses were or could be affected?

Article Table

Note: If you are a Cornell College student and have trouble viewing the pay-to-view articles, you can access them at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dVFCnUnlkW08zgof8vg1PaqpEmsUsdEg?usp=sharing

Articles files are named last name, first initial of the author(s) name(s).

Articles Assignment 2 Assignment 3 Assignment 4
Guardian article on Cambridge Analytica Team 1
Propublica article on risk assessment in criminal sentencing Team 2
NYTimes: Gender discrimination by an approval algorithm for Apple’s credit card by Neil Vigdor Team 1
NYTimes: Changes to the Census could make small towns disappear by Gus Wezerek and David Van Riper Team 2
NYTimes: Location tracking cell phones by Stuart A. Thomson and Charlie Warzel Team 3
NYTimes: Data protection by Natasha Singer Team 4
Washington Post article on racial bias in medical algorithms by Carolyn Y. Johnson Team 5
NPR: IBM discontinues facial recognition products Team 3
Ethics of digital contact tracing Team 4
NPR: Fired data scientist launches coronavirus dashboard Team 5
Harvard Business Review: Racial disparities in health care outcomes Team 6
Reuters: Amazon’s recruiting tool that filtered out women’s colleges Team 6
NYTimes: Indigenous data sovereignty by Sabrina Imbler
NYTimes: Many trial volunteers got the placebo vaccine. Do they now deserve the real ones? by Carl Zimmer and Noah Weiland
NYTimes: An algorithm that grants freedom, or takes it away by Cade Metz and Satariano
NYTimes: Using A.I. to find bias in A.I. by Cade Metz
NYTimes: 2020 Census undercounted by Michael Wines and Maria Cramer
NYTimes: What should happen to our data when we die? by Adrienne Matei

Ethics HW 1

Read Of oaths and checklists, and The Ethical Data Scientist.

Respond to the following prompts on Moodle.

  1. Discuss 3 pieces of advice both authors suggest to be an ethical data scientist.

  2. Identify 1 suggestion in each article that the other article does not consider.