Computing applications involving large amounts of data – the domain of data science – impact the lives of most people in the U.S. and the world. These impacts include recommendations made to us by ...

No one expects a keyboard, a hammer or a scalpel to have built-in ethical standards that guide its work. Only the users of such tools can chart those paths. But artificial intelligence (AI) — the term ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Undergraduate training for data scientists - dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review - falls short in ...

This spring, students in a data science class faced a challenging dilemma: Should they launch a facial recognition application that let unemployed people access their benefits—even though it often ...

The Data Lab’s Data Summit conference in Edinburgh took the ethical use of data as an over-arching theme. Speakers included science broadcaster Hannah Fry, Nasa’s chief science data officer, Kevin ...

In an era when data-driven decisions and systems influence every sector of business and society, talented professionals who bring an ethical framework to data science are more in demand than ever. The ...

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