Dorothea Baur·Feb 7, 2022Big 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?A response icon1A response icon1
Dorothea Baur·Nov 3, 2021AI 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?
Dorothea Baur·Mar 17, 2021Robinhood: democratized finance on shaky groundRobinhood’s promises of democratized financial markets rest on a controverial business model and don’t cope well with stress.
Dorothea Baur·Jan 25, 2021Privacy 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…A response icon1A response icon1
Dorothea Baur·Dec 4, 2020No, 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…A response icon4A response icon4
Dorothea Baur·Nov 21, 2020Four 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…
Dorothea Baur·Feb 15, 2020Why 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…
Dorothea Baur·Feb 4, 2020Opposing 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…
Dorothea Baur·Mar 15, 2019Why 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”.A response icon4A response icon4
Dorothea Baur·Feb 22, 2019Algorithmische 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)…