4.1 Ethics

First lets look at a definition of ethics from Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

• Well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans should do
  
• The study and development of one’s ethical standards

4.1.1 Key examples for data ethics

• Recourse
  • Arkansas’s buggy healthcare algorithms left patients stranded.
• Feedback loops
  • YouTube’s recommendation system helped unleash a conspiracy theory boom
• Bias
  • When a traditionally African-American name is searched for on Google, it displays ads for criminal background checks

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