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Ethics in the wild #1 - Newsletter on moral trip wires
Written on 20.04.2021 16:35 by Ursela Barteczko
The topics of this lecture are concerned with your future or current work and its impact. There are abundant examples of where ethical considerations are of importance in "the real world". So with this newsletter we want to provide you with some interesting additional reading material. You guessed it as soon as I said "additional": none of this is exam-relevant. But you are invited to reflect on these topics, also with your group, to figure out what is problematic about certain pieces of information or practices.
- Maybe you have heard of the "Apple Card" that supposedly gives men a higher credit limit than women? Here is some newer article stating that this might actually is not the case.
- Many terms in our language evolve over time to become more inclusive. This is also an ongoing debate in Computer Science and Programming languages: "‘Master,’ ‘Slave’ and the Fight Over Offensive Terms in Computing" (NY Times)
- Some regional news: The city of "Bitche" was blocked on Facebook, probably because of a slight similarity with another English word. (Saarbrücker Zeitung, Article in German)
- Cartoon: What is the difference between AI and AGI?