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@wheelyweb Right. Which means that consensus doesn't always lead to the the path of least harm. All depends of course on what the goal is. Collaboration is certainly what will get us there.
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@wheelyweb Totally agree. I believe too few of us reflect on how interpretation is a product of our knowledge and the same data will be interpreted differently by different individuals - and by ourselves in the future. Makes me think about the challenges of reaching consensus.
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@cyetain Hmm, it's supposed to be here but it seems the link isn't working right now (second link).
I'll ask her after the session :)
avhandlingar.se/om/paxling/
My kid sister is today becoming a Doctor of Technology, focusing on the field of feminst technoscience and ethics and her presentation is fabulous and did I mention she is my sister 😭😍
#designethics
"I would suggest that care is deeply embedded in technology development, and how we choose to care, or not to care, when we develop apps, games and technological platforms."
Can I also mention how she is being totally badass about criticising traditional embedded research, acknowledging how the researcher is really part of the research and influencing the environment. The researcher is a co-creator in this sense, just as the designer is a co-creator.
"When I revisit my previous, older papers I can see them in a different light - notice new things - after having done further research in orher areas."
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@Eduardo_Rich @DougCollinsUX @Carilall @ux_adam @krayker @ojmqd @whatusersdo @AngelList @ixdconf @gillesdemarty Thanks for the shoutout Eddie! Very timely. I today embarked on teaching a two-week course in ethics for UX students at a trade school here in Sweden. This will be an experience to blog about and share. I’d likely want to include an interview with some students in that.
Very psyched that this is now happening!
Kudos to the trade school Nackademin, with a shoutout to Mikael Boman and the advisory team, for making it possible for two weeks of discussing and learning (together) about ethics in design. And how we can mitigate potential negative impact.
These UX students are awesome and I've already learnt so much from them today. Any company would be lucky to hire them.
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@olaberg Fast jag tycker det är efficient som saknar motsvarighet. Att man kan jobba "efficiently" utan att nå önskad effekt med resultatet.
Sometimes the Swedish language illustrates how some concepts are much harder to explain, because the words just aren't there. So frustrating.
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@JesperBylund In How the world thinks :)
Most of my philosophy lessons I'm getting online actually.
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@adblanche @LauraColban @rwaldron @RealSaavedra @AOC x.com/axbom/status/1…
My bookshelf on ethics-related matters. There are more books lying around the house though.
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@opassande I tried switching to the Google Authenticator but that just broke Twitter when I tried logging in.
Hmmm, not able to receive my text from Twitter for 2-factor authentication (been 2 days now). This means I can't reach my Twitter from anywhere but the two places I'm already logged in. 😬 Trying to understand how bad this is right now.
How do you feel about the practice of ripping videos from other sources and uploading them to ones own channel without explicit consent?
(Be it Twitter, Facebook, YouTube or other.)
Then, how do you feel about doing the same with images?
This problem with reporters who can not fact check before they report, and hence contribute to misinformation and even further prejudice... it's a big one. x.com/RealSaavedra/s…
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@RealSaavedra Here we go, one of many examples:
propublica.org/article/machin…
@AOC is 100% correct and there are many organizations across the world working on ways to mitigate bias in machine learning.
@RealSaavedra @AOC Algorithms are driven by computation, not by math.
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2017/07/three-…
@RealSaavedra @AOC A video based on @mathbabedotorg's talk may help out here: vimeo.com/thersa/thetrut…
She wrote a book aptly named Weapons of Math Destruction.
@RealSaavedra Hmmm, it seems even Amazon can't get it right... reuters.com/article/us-ama…
@RealSaavedra Here's one where Google apologized: theguardian.com/technology/201…
@RealSaavedra Google says: "Machine learning models are not inherently objective. Engineers train models by feeding them data sets of training examples, and human involvement in the provision and curation of this data can make a model's predictions susceptible to bias." developers.google.com/machine-learni…
Move slow and empower people.
(Yes I realize ”slowly” is more correct, but this rings better - freedom of expression and all that 😝)