BigDataFr recommends: When Data Science Destabilizes Democracy and Facilitates Genocide

[…] What is the ethical responsibility of data scientists?

What we’re talking about is a cataclysmic change… What we’re talking about is a major foreign power with sophistication and ability to involve themselves in a presidential election and sow conflict and discontent all over this country… You bear this responsibility. You’ve created these platforms. And now they are being misused, Senator Feinstein said this week in a senate hearing. Who has created a cataclysmic change? Who bears this large responsibility? She was talking to executives at tech companies and referring to the work of data scientists.

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By Rachel Thomas
Source: quantamagazine.org