Akiva Thalheim, Washington Square News, NYU's Independent Student Newspaper; University Launches Ethics-Forward Data Science Major
"The new major seeks to specifically address and prevent these issues
through a required course in the ethics of data science, [Center for Data Science Director Julia] Kempe
explained. She added that the course was developed with the assistance
of a National Science Foundation grant.
“We are hoping to educate young people to
be data savvy and also data critical, because nowadays, everything is
about data but often it’s done in a very uncritical way,” Kempe said.
“We have to understand where the biases are [and] how to use data
ethically — it’s something that we want to impart on every student, if
we can.""
Ethically-tangled aspects of 21st century societies and cultures. In the vein of Charles Darwin’s 1859 “entangled bank” metaphor—a complex and evolving digital ecosystem of difference and dependence, where humans, technologies, ethics, law, policy, data, and information converge and diverge. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
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