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

Publications

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.

Press

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