Dorothea BaurBig Tech and AI ethicists — a reciprocal duty to engage?If we have a choice: do we want to have Big Tech at the table when discussing regulation, or do we want them to lobby behind closed doors?4 min read·Feb 7, 2022--1--1
Dorothea BaurAI ethics — getting up early, but waking up lateWhere does demand for AI ethics come from? Why should we link it to ESG? And how can audits strengthen AI ethics?7 min read·Nov 3, 2021----
Dorothea BaurRobinhood: democratized finance on shaky groundRobinhood’s promises of democratized financial markets rest on a controverial business model and don’t cope well with stress.5 min read·Mar 17, 2021----
Dorothea BaurPrivacy conundrums in early 2021 — on violators and accomplicesIt took me a couple of days to realize what that sudden Clubhouse buzz in my Twitter feed was about. I was just recovering from the shock…4 min read·Jan 25, 2021--1--1
Dorothea BaurNo, we don’t want to ‘democratize’ AIEveryone concerned with ethics is probably used to cringing while reading news on AI. For me, one of the most reliable triggers for such…3 min read·Dec 4, 2020--4--4
Dorothea BaurFour reasons why hyping AI is an ethical problemBias, discrimination, privacy violations, lack of accountability — AI entails a lot of ethical problems. Hyping AI creates additional…4 min read·Nov 21, 2020----
Dorothea BaurWhy we should hope that corporate claims about the ethics of facial recognition are pure marketingOn January 15 2020, Meredith Whittaker, Cofounder of the AI Now Institute, gave a testimony, entitled “Facial Recognition Technology (Part…5 min read·Feb 15, 2020----
Dorothea BaurOpposing facial recognition — why focusing on accuracy misses the pointFacial recognition has come under massive scrutiny, not least since its live variant has come to attention. Approaches to using it are…4 min read·Feb 4, 2020----
Dorothea BaurWhy AI really needs social scientistsA few weeks ago, the San Francisco based think tank Open AI published a paper titled “AI Safety Needs Social Scientists”.6 min read·Mar 15, 2019--4--4
Dorothea BaurAlgorithmische Entscheidungen und soziale Spannungen — Künstliche Intelligenz im politischen…Beim Lesen des ausgezeichneten Berichts des Council of Europe zu «Diskriminierung, KI und algorithmischen Entscheiden» (auf englisch)…5 min read·Feb 22, 2019----