Fairness and ethics in computing — Arvind Narayanan

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Highlights: Fair ML textbook / 21 definitions of fairness talk / AI snake oil talk / Word embedding bias paper / Dark patterns paper

Textbook	Fairness and machine learning: limitations and opportunities Solon Barocas, Moritz Hardt, Arvind Narayanan. MIT Press, forthcoming. Related: 21 definitions of fairness and their politics. Talk at FAT* 2018.	★
Journal	Manipulative tactics are the norm in political emails: Evidence from 300K emails from the 2020 U.S. election cycle Arunesh Mathur, Angelina Wang, Carsten Schwemmer, Maia Hamin, Brandon M. Stewart, Arvind Narayanan. Big Data & Society, 2023. Corpus.	★
Conference	Against Predictive Optimization: On the Legitimacy of Decision-Making Algorithms that Optimize Predictive Accuracy Angelina Wang, Sayash Kapoor, Solon Barocas, Arvind Narayanan. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2023.	★
Conference	How Algorithms Shape the Distribution of Political Advertising: Case Studies of Facebook, Google, and TikTok Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Christelle Tessono, Arvind Narayanan, Mihir Kshirsagar. AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) 2022.	★
Conference	Mitigating dataset harms requires stewardship: Lessons from 1000 papers Kenny Peng, Arunesh Mathur, Arvind Narayanan. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021. Oral presentation.	★
Workshop	Simulation as Experiment: An Empirical Critique of Simulation Research on Recommender Systems Amy A. Winecoff, Matthew Sun, Eli Lucherini, Arvind Narayanan. Workshop on Simulation Methods for Recommender Systems (SimuRec) 2021
Journal	REVISE: A Tool for Measuring and Mitigating Bias in Visual Datasets Angelina Wang, Alexander Liu, Ryan Zhang, Anat Kleiman, Leslie Kim, Dora Zhao, Iroha Shirai, Arvind Narayanan, Olga Russakovsky. International Journal of Computer Vision, 2022. Extended version of a paper that appeared at ECCV 2020.	★
Draft	T-RECS: A Simulation Tool to Study the Societal Impact of Recommender Systems Eli Lucherini, Matthew Sun, Amy Winecoff, Arvind Narayanan. Manuscript, 2021.
Conference	REVISE: A Tool for Measuring and Mitigating Bias in Image Datasets Angelina Wang, Arvind Narayanan, Olga Russakovsky. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2020. Spotlight presentation.	★
Magazine	Dark Patterns: Past, Present, and Future Arvind Narayanan, Arunesh Mathur, Marshini Chetty, Mihir Kshirsagar. ACM Queue, 2020. (Also appeared in CACM, 2020.)
Journal	Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration Matthew J. Salganik et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2020.	★
Conference	Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites Arunesh Mathur, Gunes Acar, Michael Friedman, Elena Lucherini, Jonathan Mayer, Marshini Chetty, Arvind Narayanan. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 2019. FPF Privacy Papers for Policy Makers Award.	★
Conference	Endorsements on Social Media: An Empirical Study of Affiliate Marketing Disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest Arunesh Mathur, Arvind Narayanan, Marshini Chetty. ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing 2018. Best paper award. Blog post.	★
Workshop	An Empirical Study of Affiliate Marketing Disclosures on YouTube and Pinterest Arunesh Mathur, Arvind Narayanan, Marshini Chetty. Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro) 2018. Blog post.	★
Journal	Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases Aylin Caliskan, Joanna J. Bryson, Arvind Narayanan. Science, 2017. Open access author copy.	★
Journal	Ten simple rules for responsible big data research Matthew Zook, Solon Barocas, danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Emily Keller, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Frank Pasquale. PLoS Computational Biology 2017.	★
Journal	No Encore for Encore? Ethical Questions for Web-Based Censorship Measurement Arvind Narayanan, Bendert Zevenbergen. Technology Science, 2015.	★
Journal	Redefining Genomic Privacy: Trust and Empowerment Yaniv Erlich, James B Williams, David Glazer, Kenneth Yocum, Nita Farahany, Maynard Olson, Arvind Narayanan, Lincoln D Stein, Jan A Witkowski, Robert C Kain PLoS Biology, 2014.	★
Journal	Why software engineering courses should include ethics coverage Arvind Narayanan, Shannon Vallor. Communications of the ACM, 2014.	★

AI ethics	Could AI Help Script a Sitcom? Some Striking Writers Fear So. Washington Post, May 06, 2023
AI ethics	AI-generated Deepfakes Are Moving Faster Than Policy Can NPR Morning Edition, Apr 27, 2023
AI ethics	Generative AI: Regulation Is Important for Its Progress Raconteur, Apr 25, 2023
Dark Patterns	Smart Devices Are Trying to Manipulate You With ‘Dark Patterns’ Consumer Reports, Apr 18, 2023
AI ethics	ChatGPT Advances Bring AI Disinformation Risks to Spotlight Bloomberg, Apr 06, 2023
AI ethics	What Happens When ChatGPT Lies About Real People? Washington Post, Apr 05, 2023
AI ethics	The AI Backlash Is Here. It’s Focused on the Wrong Things. Washington Post, Apr 04, 2023
AI ethics	Elon Musk Among Experts Urging a Halt to AI Training BBC News, Mar 30, 2023
AI ethics	The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess VICE Motherboard, Mar 29, 2023
AI ethics	Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak: Pause More Powerful A.I. Fortune, Mar 29, 2023
AI ethics	An AI-generated Puffy-coat Pope Fooled Us All. How Much Does It Matter? Washington Post, Mar 28, 2023
AI ethics	Snapchat’s AI Could Be the Creepiest Chatbot Yet Fast Company, Mar 15, 2023
AI ethics	What Are the Ethical Hazards in the Effort to Commercialize AI? Marketplace Tech, Mar 15, 2023
AI ethics	OpenAI Announces GPT-4 AI Language Model The Verge, Mar 14, 2023
AI ethics	Meta’s Powerful AI language Model Has Leaked Online — What Happens Now? - the Verge The Verge, Mar 08, 2023
AI ethics	Microsoft's New AI Chatbot Has Been Saying Some 'Crazy and Unhinged Things' NPR, Mar 02, 2023
AI ethics	How Microsoft's Experiment in Artificial Intelligence Tech Backfired NPR Morning Edition, Feb 27, 2023
AI ethics	Is Bing Too Belligerent? Microsoft Looks to Tame AI Chatbot Associated Press, Feb 16, 2023
AI ethics	How AI Is Changing the Outlook for Illustrators Washington Post, Feb 14, 2023
AI ethics	The Bing Chatbot, as Deranged as It Is, Is a Business Win for Microsoft. Slate (via the Big Technology newsletter), Feb 13, 2023
Dark Patterns	‘We’re Positively BEGGING You’: How Republicans and Democrats Demand Money Differently The Guardian, Oct 10, 2022
AI ethics	AI Fails to Predict Crime. But Researchers Won't Stop Trying To The Washington Post, Jul 15, 2022
AI ethics	Microsoft Plans to Eliminate Face Analysis Tools in Push for ‘Responsible A.I.’ New York Times, Jun 21, 2022
AI bias	Why It’s So Damn Hard to Make AI Fair and Unbiased Vox, Apr 19, 2022
AI ethics	Deleting Unethical Data Sets Isn’t Good Enough MIT Technology Review, Aug 13, 2021
AI ethics	This $5 Billion Insurance Company Likes to Talk Up Its AI. Now It's in a Mess Over It CNN Business, May 28, 2021
Dark Patterns	Stopping the Manipulation Machines New York Times (Opinion), Apr 30, 2021
Dark Patterns	Fundraising Appeals Are a Plague on Our Politics. Here’s Why You Should Care Washington Post, Apr 08, 2021
Dark Patterns	Lawmakers Take Aim at Insidious Digital ‘Dark Patterns’ Wired, Jan 29, 2021
Dark Patterns	Pandemic Online Shopping Boom Has Generated Bumper Crop of Vulnerable Personal Data, E-commerce Experts Warn Spark (CBC Radio), Jan 22, 2021
AI ethics	The Ethical Questions That Haunt Facial-recognition Research Nature News, Jan 13, 2021
Dark Patterns	Georgia’s Billion-Dollar Bonfire The Atlantic, Jan 06, 2021
AI bias	When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks 'Official.' a Woman? 'Smile' Wired, Dec 19, 2020
AI bias	YouTube Cut Down Misinformation. Then It Boosted Fox News New York Times, Nov 03, 2020
Dark Patterns	All the President’s Spam ABC News, Oct 21, 2020
Dark patterns	How Campaigns Use Manipulative Tricks to Convince You to Open Their Emails Fast Company, Oct 09, 2020
Dark Patterns	Trump’s Campaign Lures Donors With Absurd Financial Promises — and Insults Washington Post, Oct 09, 2020
AI bias	The Quiet Growth of Race-Detection Software Sparks Concerns Over Bias Wall Street Journal, Aug 14, 2020
Dark Patterns	The Subtle Tricks Shopping Sites Use to Make You Spend More Wired, Aug 06, 2020
AI ethics	Can YouTube Quiet Its Conspiracy Theorists? New York Times, Mar 02, 2020
AI ethics	Job Hunters Face a New Hurdle: Impressing AI CBS News, Feb 20, 2020
Dark Patterns	Sale Ending Soon? How Online Stores Trick You Into Buying Associated Press, Jan 22, 2020
AI ethics	There's a New Obstacle to Landing a Job After College: Getting Approved by AI CNN, Jan 15, 2020
Dark patterns	How ‘dark Patterns’ Influence Travel Bookings BBC, Dec 12, 2019
Dark patterns	Troubling Online Shopping Habits? Vendors’ Practices Might Be to Blame Princeton Alumni Weekly, Nov 30, 2019
Dark patterns	Tricks Online Retailers Use to Get You to Spend More Wall Street Journal, Nov 22, 2019
AI ethics	Microsoft's AI Research Draws Controversy Over Possible Disinformation Use IEEE Spectrum, Nov 04, 2019
AI ethics	3 Easy Ways to Evaluate AI Claims IEEE Spectrum, Aug 23, 2019
Dark patterns	How Dark Patterns Online Manipulate Shoppers The Atlantic, Aug 02, 2019
Dark Patterns	This Chrome Extension Calls Out Sponsored YouTube Videos Wired, Jul 12, 2019
Dark Patterns	Dark Patterns: The Art of Online Deception The Guardian Science Weekly podcast, Jul 12, 2019
Dark Patterns	How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want New York Times, Jun 24, 2019
Dark Patterns	Study Scrutinizes Hidden Marketing Relationships on Social Media Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Science, Dec 13, 2018
AI bias	Why Netflix Features Black Actors in Promos to Black Users Wired, Oct 24, 2018
AI bias	Finding a Fair Way to Tame the Bigoted Bots Financial Times, Jul 25, 2018
AI bias	Bias Detectives: The Researchers Striving to Make Algorithms Fair Nature News, Jun 20, 2018
AI bias	Making Smart Machines Fair Princeton Alumni Weekly, Jun 06, 2018
Privacy, AI ethics	Clues to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s From How You Use Your Computer Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2018
Dark Patterns	Millions of YouTube Product Reviews May Flout Advertising Rules New Scientist, Mar 29, 2018
Dark Patterns	PewDiePie and Other Vloggers Fail to Disclose Adverts The Times (London), Mar 28, 2018
Dark Patterns	YouTube and Pinterest Influencers Almost Never Disclose Marketing Relationships Wired, Mar 27, 2018
AI bias	In 2017, Society Started Taking AI Bias Seriously Engadget, Dec 21, 2017
AI bias	Battling AI Biases Communications of the ACM, Nov 28, 2017
AI bias	What Would Make a Computer Biased? Learning a Language Spoken by Humans Los Angeles Times, Apr 14, 2017
AI bias	Even Artificial Intelligence Can Acquire Biases Against Race and Gender Science Magazine, Apr 13, 2017
AI bias	AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals The Guardian, Apr 13, 2017
AI bias	AI Learns Gender and Racial Biases From Language IEEE Spectrum, Apr 13, 2017
AI bias	Computers, Artificial Intelligence Show Bias and Prejudice, Too NBC News, Apr 13, 2017
AI bias	Artificial Intelligence Copies Human Stereotypes in Language, Study Reveals Wired UK, Apr 13, 2017
AI bias	How to Fix Silicon Valley’s Sexist Algorithms MIT Technology Review, Nov 23, 2016
AI bias	Bath Researcher Shows Machines Can Be Prejudiced Too ACM TechNews, Oct 24, 2016
AI bias	Artificial Intelligence Will Be as Biased and Prejudiced as Its Human Creators Pacific Standard, Sep 01, 2016

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