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J. Nathan Matias organizes citizen behavioral science for a safer, fairer, more understanding internet. A Guatemalan American, Matias is an assistant professor in Cornell University’s Department of Communication. He is […]
Tech sector whistleblowers have played an increasingly vital role in exposing racism and toxic workplace environments, algorithmic bias, and other platform harms. But the cost of coming forward with information […]
Rua M. Williams is an assistant professor in the User Experience Design program at Purdue University. They study interactions between technology design, computing research practices, and Disability Justice. Williams deploys […]
Amelia Gibson is an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her primary research interests focus on the […]
The governance of rights is a complex project of exercising ethical discretion in a systemically unethical society. This paper troubles the efficacy of rights as governable by exposing tensions within […]
Recent exposures of extant and potentially discriminatory impacts of technological advancement have prompted members of the computing research field to reflect on their duty to actively predict and mitigate negative […]
The Combating Autism Act of 2006 and its reauthorization in 2014 produced unprecedented interest in autism research. Computer Science researchers have devoted considerable attention to applying wearable technologies to existing […]
Due to growing concerns for the disproportionate dangers AI advances pose to marginalized groups, proposals for procedural solutions to ethics in AI abound. It is time to consider that some […]
Consider a data holder, such as a hospital or a bank, that has a privately held collection of person-specific, field structured data. Suppose the data holder wants to share a […]
We study fairness in classification, where individuals are classified, e.g., admitted to a university, and the goal is to prevent discrimination against individuals based on their membership in some group, […]
Over the past decade, algorithmic decision systems (ADSs)—applications of statistical or computational techniques designed to assist human-decision making processes—have moved from an obscure domain of statistics and computer science into […]