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#DSFthegreatindoors presents

Panel Session - Ethics in Tech: The good, the bad and the ugly

A talk by Ben Byford, Raluca Crisan, Olivia Gambelin & Sophie Shawdon. SCHEDULE - GMT

#DataEthics
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#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

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What data acts as a proxy for your risk for car insurance?
Sophie Shawdon @ClearScore: Traditional Ethics for Alternative Data.

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Telematics can act as direct indicators of your risk.

Sophie Shawdon @ClearScore: Traditional Ethics for Alternative Data.

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You need to consider the veracity of your data? How trustworthy is it? Is it skewed? Permitted to use the data?

Sophie Shawdon @ClearScore: Traditional Ethics for Alternative Data.

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Do you understand the variables used (features)?
Avoid bias

Sophie Shawdon @ClearScore: Traditional Ethics for Alternative Data.

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PRIVACY is critical, heard of PII?
Sophie Shawdon @ClearScore: Traditional Ethics for Alternative Data.

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SPEAKER 2
Raluca Crisan @aquilainsight: Building debiasing toolkits

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ETIQ have been building a tool to help identify and mitigate bias in automated decisions systems

Raluca Crisan @aquilainsight: Building debiasing toolkits

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#MachineLearning

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Metrics can be scored. They chose equal opportunities as a metric.

Raluca Crisan @aquilainsight: Building debiasing toolkits

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#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

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As they moved through the solution the big advantage was seen to be identifying the bias sources that led to the outcomes

Raluca Crisan @aquilainsight: Building debiasing toolkits

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#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

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SPEAKER 3

Olivia Gambelin: Ethical Innovation for Responsible Tech.

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What is ethics?

Olivia Gambelin: Ethical Innovation for Responsible Tech.

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#MachineLearning

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Ethics DOES NOT block tech innovation!

Olivia Gambelin: Ethical Innovation for Responsible Tech.

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#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

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Ethical debt? Do not risk your reputation and have your system break down based on poor ethics

Olivia Gambelin: Ethical Innovation for Responsible Tech.

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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

@DataIdols

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Ethical principals will safeguard your product/company

Olivia Gambelin: Ethical Innovation for Responsible Tech.

#Ethics
#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

@DataIdols

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Ethics can foster innovation! Did you realise that?
Olivia Gambelin: Ethical Innovation for Responsible Tech.

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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

@DataIdols

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Don't be complacent. Make sure your solution is ethically & technically acceptable

Olivia Gambelin: Ethical Innovation for Responsible Tech.

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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

@DataIdols

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Want to get in touch? Follow @ethicalai_co

Olivia Gambelin: Ethical Innovation for Responsible Tech.

#Ethics
#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

@DataIdols

#DSFthegreatindoors
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SPEAKER 4
Steph Locke @TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai: Ethics considerations for AI monitoring in the post-COVID workplace

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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

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We can use #ML with CCTV to ensure social distancing

Steph Locke @TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai: Ethics considerations for AI monitoring in the post-COVID workplace

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#MachineLearning

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Think about the risks, impact & probabilities. How do we mitigate risks?

Steph Locke @TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai: Ethics considerations for AI monitoring in the post-COVID workplace

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#DataEngineering
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Medical data is about as serious as it gets.

Steph Locke @TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai: Ethics considerations for AI monitoring in the post-COVID workplace

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#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

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175 different pieces of legislation that can be used to access data that is collected

@TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai: Ethics considerations for AI monitoring in the post-COVID workplace

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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#ML

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Data breach threats are internal and external.

Steph Locke @TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai: Ethics considerations for AI monitoring in the post-COVID workplace

#Ethics
#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

@DataIdols

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Watch out for the bias of image recognition systems. Is it fair and unbiased?

@TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai: Ethics considerations for AI monitoring in the post-COVID workplace
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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning
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Consult your employees, have safeguards, check standards

Want to get in touch with Steph?

Steph Locke @TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai: Ethics considerations for AI monitoring in the post-COVID workplace

#Ethics
#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#MachineLearning

@DataIdols

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Time for Q&A with the awesome panel

@benbyford @ethicalbydesign
Sophie Shawdon @ClearScore
@TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai
Olivia Gambelin @ethicalai_co
Raluca Crisan @aquilainsight

#Ethics
#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#ML

@DataIdols

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Organisations should not offload their ethical responsibility onto governments, if there is no regulation

Olivia Gambelin @ethicalai_co

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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#ML

@DataIdols

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Safety vs privacy is a tradeoff. Users give up privacy based on governments protecting us and our data...

@TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai

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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#ML

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Processes and checklists can help be better at ethics

Time for Q&A with the awesome panel

@TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai

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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#ML

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Some deep advice on ethics from Olivia (Consequentialism: results-based ethics & Ontological Ethics)

Olivia Gambelin @ethicalai_co

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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#ML

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Some big companies have pockets of good ethics practices

Time for Q&A with the awesome panel

Sophie Shawdon @ClearScore

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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#ML

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Just because it it is technically feasible does not mean it must be created (such as lethal autonomous weapons)

Olivia Gambelin @ethicalai_co

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#DataScience
#DataEngineering
#ML

@DataIdols

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Have you seen
alltechishuman.org/blog/all-tech-…
TQ Olivia!

@benbyford @ethicalbydesign
Sophie Shawdon @ClearScore
@TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai
Olivia Gambelin @ethicalai_co
Raluca Crisan @aquilainsight
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#DataEthics
#DataScience
#DataEngineering
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Ethics in Tech: The good, the bad and the ugly
MASSIVE THANKS:
@benbyford @ethicalbydesign
Sophie Shawdon @ClearScore
@TheStephLocke @nightingalehqai
Olivia Gambelin @ethicalai_co
Raluca Crisan @aquilainsight

#Ethics
#DataEthics
#DataScience
#ML

@DataIdols

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