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In reasoning about bias and fairness is is critically important to involve those who might be directly impacted by AI system in the process of designing, curating, testing these systems, and especially in the ‘deconstruction’ of language based data.

Data, Power and Bias in Artificial Intelligence

Susan Leavy, Barry O’Sullivan, Eugenia Siapera

The dominant cultural fact, present in both modern warfare and modern medicine, which induces a sharper awareness of the fragility of human life is our technology. To live as we do in an age of careening development of technology is to face a qualitatively new range of moral problems. War has been a perennial threat to human life, but today the threat is qualitatively different due to nuclear weapons. We now threaten life on a scale previously unimaginable. As the pastoral letter put it, the dangers of clear war teach us to read the book of Genesis with new eyes. From the inception of life to its decline, __a rapidly expanding technology opens new opportunities for care but also poses new potential to threaten the sanctity of life.__

Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin: Volume 2 - Church and Society

Alphonse P. Spilly, editor

Data colonialism combines the predatory extractive practices of historical colonialism with the abstract quantification methods of computing.

Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject

Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias

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