Interesting, I highly recommend this paper [1] "Can an Algorithm be Unethical?"

Aaron mentioned how we are tackling bias and discrimination in ORES in the latest Research showcase [2] [3]

[1] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~csandvig/research/ICA2015--CananAlgorithmbeUnethical.pdf 
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsFmqYxtt9w#t=29m00s
[3] Slides: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Deploying_and_maintaining_AI_in_a_socio-technical_system_--_Research_Showcase_(August_2016).pdf

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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:45 PM Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:
Perhaps of interest: http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/how-linkedins-search-engine-may-reflect-a-bias/

"“Histories of discrimination can live on in digital platforms,” Kate Crawford, a Microsoft researcher, wrote in The New York Times earlier this year. “And if they go unquestioned, they become part of the logic of everyday algorithmic systems.”"

Pine
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