Lucy Bernholz, Stanford University | Stanford Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference 2020
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Claims that digital civil society doesn't exist because associational life now runs through company-built, surveilled digital systems, and that this collapse of private civic space threatens democracy. Argues ethics talk is empty unless tied to values, reports leading the Digital Civil Society Lab for 11 years, warns that data about people are inherently biased, rejects any magic debiased dataset, and urges diverse teams, new pedagogies and earlier, systemic checks on algorithms and models to prevent exported harms and political externalities.
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- 0:00Introduction to WiDS
- 0:46Digital Civil Society Lab
- 2:32Ethics and values in tech
- 3:54Ethics panel highlights
- 5:21Women in data science ethics
- 7:09Just because we can
- 9:19Data bias reality
- 10:01Fixing biased systems
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