Project Management and Ethics
" ..sono veramente meravigliato che la vita sia qui dopo tutti questi secoli, dopo l'inferno di tutti i nostri errori,la nostra piccineria e la nostra avidità,il nostro egoismo, il nostro rancore,la vita è ancora qui e il pensiero di ciò mi rende stranamente euforico."(Charles Bukowski ) "..I truly wonder that life is still here after... Continue Reading →
“Can we solve problems stemming from human bias by turning decisions over to machines? In theory, more and more decisions increasingly handled by algorithms should mean that human biases and prejudices should be eliminated. Algorithms are, after all, “neutral” and “objective”. They apply the same rules to everybody regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or ability. The reality, however, is far from this”.
There is no area untouched by data science and computer science. From medicine, to the criminal justice system, to banking & insurance, to social welfare, data driven solutions and automated systems are proposed and developed for various social problems. The fact that computer science is intersecting with various social, cultural and political spheres means leaving the realm of the “purely technical” and dealing with human culture, values, meaning, and questions of morality; questions that need more than technical “solutions”, if they can be solved at all. Critical engagement and ethics are, therefore, imperative to the growing field of computer science.
And the need for ethical and critical engagement is becoming more apparent as not a day goes by without a headline about some catastrophic consequences of careless practices, be it a discriminatory automated hiring system or implementation of a facial recognition system that undermines privacy. With the realization that the…
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Cosi cantava un noto complesso rock nei primi anni Settanta. A mezzo secolo di distanza, dopo infiniti dibattiti, il problema del rischio nucleare non è stato risolto; neanche per lo stoccaggio delle scorie radioattive degli impianti civili. Oggi, tuttavia, le preoccupazioni della pubblica opinione, sono indirizzate altrove. Di “olocausto nucleare”, in particolare tra i giovani,... Continue Reading →
A fornire l'indizio cruciale a Sherlock Holmes fu il cane che tralasciò di abbaiare.
Ethics of knowledge 