Existential Engineering or How Ethics Precedes Error Handling
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Argues that algorithms embed human bias and gives concrete cases: Palantir predictive policing tied to harassment of low‑income Black people, ProPublica’s findings of COMPAS recidivism bias, Amazon’s product‑recognition adding race, Robert Moses displacing 300,000 families, and a dozen employees forcing Google to drop Project Maven. Names ACM and ABET as ethical anchors, cites EFF/DMCA fiction as a method, and urges adopting an explicit workplace code and auditing data and models for measurable harms.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:51Sofia Umoja Nobel
- 1:58Phillip Peyton Jr
- 2:19Sadie Fagan
- 3:26Manhattan Town
- 3:57Gentrification
- 5:11Algorithms
- 6:04Ethical Dilemmas
- 7:04Compass
- 7:40Ethics
- 8:06Three ethical influences
- 8:31Ethical Framework
- 9:26Formal Codes
- 9:56Stretching Your Imagination
- 11:26Jane Jacobs
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