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SUMMARY:Data Science Research Ethics and the Challenges of Inference, Public Data and Consent
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 Data Ethics in Research Seminar Series\n
 \n
 Dr. 
 Jake Metcalf, Director of the AI on the Ground 
 Initiative at the Data & Society Research Institute\n
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 Data 
 science, and the related disciplines 
 of machine learning and artificial intelligence, 
 are founded on the assumed availability 
 of massive amounts of data. The scientific 
 and economic justification for collecting 
 and using all that data is deceptively simple: 
 we can infer expensive- and hard-to-know 
 data from cheap- and easy-to-know data and make 
 predictions and automated decisions on the 
 basis of the patterns we find. When that data 
 is about human behavior, that inferential 
 step is ethically fraught because it often involves 
 data that is ubiquitous (social media, 
 geolocation, biometrics, etc.) being used to 
 predict traits that are from an entirely different 
 context (race, religion, sexual preference, 
 gender, etc.), and typically without knowledge 
 or consent. This is a highly complex 
 ethical challenge, yet our research ethics norms 
 and regulations were written for a different 
 paradigm of scientific research. In this 
 talk, I will illustrate this dynamic with several 
 cases of data science research ethics controversies 
 and consider how we might establish 
 new practices for ethical research.\n
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 Co-Sponsored 
 by the Center for Statistical Training 
 and Consulting (CSTAT) and MSU Libraries\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Holly Flynn\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0901\n
 Contact email: flynnhol@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://bookings.lib.msu.edu/event/7823977\n
LOCATION:Online
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