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Nice review by @carlykind_. I wonder if the term is becoming too broad — for example, the Court of Appeal’s decision on police facial recognition systems was on straightforward human rights law grounds, not ethics. The #ALevelFiasco outcome was simple politics 
https://twitter.com/venturebeat/status/1297585811937021957
https://twitter.com/venturebeat/status/1297585811937021957
“Framing the problem” in the sense used was something privacy campaigners have been doing for decades — I remember well this was Barry Steinhardt’s position on the “Snooper Bowl” 20 years ago https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/firm-defends-snooper-bowl-technology
Useless as the NHSX #TracingApp 1.0 was, I think its ethics board did a better job than most in exposing its issues — even if it was told it was not there to make assessments of the overall approach, and then shut down when it became too much of an obstacle to politicians
Did the #ALevelFiasco mark moderation algorithm have anything to do with AI/ML? I thought it was a relatively straightforward statistical fitting?
I also wonder how far these three phases happened in parallel, rather than more sequentially. For example, Oscar Gandy has been asking at least some of the “3rd phase” questions since the late 1980s… https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED377817
And the “second phase” started at the latest with Cynthia Dwork’s turn to fairness in 2011, much earlier than many of the endless “AI ethics” codes… https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3913
Finally, this excellent @adwooldridge column makes clear some of these issues have been raised over several centuries! https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/08/20/how-the-british-government-rules-by-algorithm
'Scientific management retreated in the face of popular fury: Charles Dickens satirised it in the person of Mr Gradgrind, who wanted to “weigh and measure every parcel of human nature”. F.R. Leavis, a literary critic, dubbed it “technologico-Benthamism”.’
Quite! >> ‘The universities to which a-level students are struggling to get admitted provide an example of the third. Tenure and promotion are awarded on the basis of the production of articles (which can be measured) rather than teaching (which can’t), so students suffer.”
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