Additional Reading List for Ethics in AI

This list contains all of the sources referenced in the class notes as well as providing pointers to anyone wanting to follow up further on some of the topics presented.

 

Books

  1. Virginia Eubanks
    Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    St. Martin's Press, 2018
  2. Cathy O'Neil
    Weapons of Math Destruction:  (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. 
    Crown Books, 2016
  3. Michael J. Quinn
    Ethics for the Information Age (7th Edition) (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    Pearson, 2016
  4. Solon Barocas, Moritz Hardt, Arvind Narayanan
    Fairness and Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities
    Online textbook: work in progress, 2019

 

Articles

  1. Autonomous weapons are a game-changer (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    The Economist, Jan 25, 2018

  2. 11 Principles on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS)
    French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs

  3. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious
    or to Have Indiscriminate Effects
    UN Group of Governmental Experts on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons System, September 25, 2019

  4. Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) – Agenda item 5(b)
    US Mission to International Organizations in Geneva, September 22, 2020

  5. Uber settles with family of woman killed by self-driving car (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    The Guardian, May 29, 2018

  6. (German) Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
    Ethics Commission: Automated and Connected Driving (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    Report Extract, June 2017

  7. OECD Policy Responses to Coronavirus (Covid-19)
    Tracking and tracing COVID: Protecting privacy and data while using apps and biometrics
    23 April 2020

  8. Uber 'not criminally liable' for self-driving death
    BBC News, March 6, 2019

  9. Uber's self-driving operator charged over fatal crash
    BBC News, September 16, 2020

  10. Ronald Arkin
    The case for banning killer robots: counterpoint
    Communications of the ACM, Vol. 58, No. 12 (2015)

  11. Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Margaret Mitchell and Alexander Todorov
    Physiognomy’s New Clothes (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    Medium. May 7, 2018

  12. Awad, Edmond, Sohan Dsouza, Richard Kim, Jonathan Schulz, Joseph Henrich, Azim Shariff, Jean-François Bonnefon, and Iyad Rahwan. 
    The Moral Machine experiment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    Nature 563, no. 7729 (2018): 59.

  13. Caliskan A, Bryson JJ, Narayanan A. 
    Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    Science. 2017 Apr 14;356(6334):183-6.
  14. Jeffrey Dastin
    Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    Reuters. October 10, 2018.

  15. Damien Gayle
    UK, US and Russia among those opposing killer robot ban
    The Guardian.  March 29, 2019

  16. Charlotte Graham-McLay
    New Zealand claims world first in setting standards for government use of algorithms
    The Guardian, July 27, 2020

  17. Moritz Hart
    How Big Data is Unfair: Understanding unintended sources of unfairness in data driven decision making (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    Medium. September 24, 2014

  18. Jon Henley and Robert Booth
    Welfare surveillance system violates human rights, Dutch court rules
    The Guardian, February 5, 2020

  19. Priyank Jain, Manasi Gyanchandani and Nilay Khare
    Big data privacy: a technological perspective and review
    Journal of Big Data, Volume 3, Article number: 25 (2016)

  20. Khari Johnson
    Amsterdam and Helsinki launch algorithm registries to bring transparency to public deployments of AI
    Venture Beat, September 28, 2020


  21. Nidhi Kalra, Susan M. Paddock 
    Driving to Safety: How Many Miles of Driving Would It Take to Demonstrate Autonomous Vehicle Reliability? (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. 
    RAND Corporation, Document Number: RR-1478-RC, 2016

  22. Keith Kirkpatrick 
    It's Not the Algorithm, It's the Data (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    Communications of the ACM, February 2017, Vol. 60 No. 2, Pages 21-23

  23. Anton Korinek, Joseph E. Stiglitz
    Artificial Intelligence and Its Implications for Income Distribution and Unemployment (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    NBER Working Paper No. 24174,  December 2017

  24. Adam D. I. Kramer, Jamie E. Guillory, and Jeffrey T. Hancock
    Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

 

 

Other Resources

Fall 2017          CS 6946-001 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.      University of Utah      Ethics in Data Science 

Fall 2017          CS 294 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.               UC Berkeley              Fairness in Machine Learning

Spring 2018      CS CS 11830 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.     CMU                         Computational Ethics for NLP