Ethical uses of Data-

driven Technologies
Lecture 8
Biases in Machine Learning
Real-life
Machine Learning examples
Machine Learning Data comes from real
systems are dependent life and has all kinds of
upon data biases built into it

Ethics is
necessary Biases
Ethics is necessary to Biases from human
overcome this huge risk of interpretation and
Machine Learning decisions exists

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Mitigate the Biases

By getting more people involved

across different cultures, we can
access unique perspectives, ensuring
that our technologies are more
accessible, as well as making it more
comfortable for people to use

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Technologies suitable for ethical
practices

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IoT Blockchain Machine Learning
They are giving us a society which is much more integrated, but at the same time potentially
more fragile.

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Importance of identifying biases
1. As an organization, you've got to know your risk appetite, and depending on that you will know
what type of strategies and responses are required to mitigate that risk.
2. The response could be a combination of stakeholder and public engagement.
3. It helps with efficiency and it really helps with the kind of product that you're going to produce.
4. And it helps with the kind of confidence the consumer is going to have using that product or using
that strategy.
5. Creates a sense of transparency.

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Necessity of ethics in emerging technologies
Generate fake
information Repopulate biases
Emerging technologies are much Emerging technologies have a
more capable to figure things out, potential to re-perpetuate biases or
their ability to generate plausible errors due to their lack of ethical
yet fake information. ideologies.

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Ethical Issues in Data
Science

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Data can incorrect,
biased, or taken
without permission.
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Technologies should be
transparent, accountable,
and minimally biased
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Data might be used in a
way that was not
authorized or foreseen

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Benefits of Ethical Data
Science

Better ways of Empower effective Mutual data sharing can be

understanding our societies leadership with more precise helpful for all parties
and inequities and sophisticated information
and decisions

Better predict tradeoffs of Both macro and micro Future developments in

proposed policies - Cost views of situations can be technology can be facilitated
benefit analysis seen

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Problems with Machine Learning and AI models
1. These models are created by someone who provided the data, selected the algorithms, and
supervised the learning.
2. It may evolve past the understanding of the person who created it.
3. Many AI systems are used to profile people or to perform other tasks that may have a direct
impact on people's lives.
4. Even the creators of these algorithms often may have no idea how or on what basis a decision has
been made.
5. Due to the inherent randomness in the statistical models, the same input may not necessarily give
the same output each time.
6. Furthermore, due to the nature of deep learning it can be very challenging to understand which
specific piece of data within a dataset contributes towards an output.
7. Concerns about black box issues have led to legislation, for example, data protection regulations
provide users the right to demand access to all data held about them.

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 AI Engineers keep ethics a priority

What safeguards are in place to help

What is the intended purpose of to provide transparency,
the technology? Could it explainability, accountability, and
potentially serve dual uses? management of bias

Who is the beneficial owner of What tradeoffs might be found

such technology? Are they between these elements with the
reliable and trustworthy? available resources?

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Meta faced 8
lawsuits
As of 2023, Meta has faced 8 lawsuits for allegedly
addicting teenagers using their algorithm.

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Thank
You
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