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AI Ethics Reading List
This is a compilation of books, papers, and resources that AI Ethicists recommend to help you manage your AI initiatives responsibly or to in general get to know AI ethics better. Thanks to all who have helped compile the list. Please consider this a living, ever-evolving list as new AI Ethics works come forward.
Title | By | URL | Referrer | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
A Misdirected Application of AI Ethics | Abeba Birhane and Jelle Van Dijk | https://www.noemamag.com/a-misdirected-application-of-ai-ethics/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
AI Ethics | Mark Coeckelbergh | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ai-ethics | Maria Axente | Book |
AI Ethics: Seven Traps | Annette Zimmerman and Bendert Zevenbergen | https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2019/03/25/ai-ethics-seven-traps/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
AI Now 2019 Report | AI Now Institute | https://ainowinstitute.org/AI_Now_2019_Report.pdf | Maria Axente | Paper |
AI Researchers Allege that Machine Learning Is Alchemy | Matthew Hutson | https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/ai-researchers-allege-machine-learning-alchemy | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Alexa and The Age of Casual Rudeness | Ken Gordon | https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/04/alexa-manners-smart-speakers-command/558653/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Algorithms Aren’t Racist. Your Skin Is Just Too Dark. | Joy Buolamwini | https://hackernoon.com/algorithms-arent-racist-your-skin-is-just-too-dark-4ed31a7304b8 | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Algorithms of Oppression | Safiya Noble | http://algorithmsofoppression.com | Maria Axente | Book |
Anatomy of an AI System | Kate Crawford and Vladan Joren | https://anatomyof.ai/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans | Melanie Mitchell | https://www.amazon.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Guide-Thinking-Humans/dp/1250758041/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= | Dagmar Monett | Book |
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World | Meredith Broussard | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/artificial-unintelligence | Maria Axente | Book |
Attacks Against Machine Learning: An Overview | Elie Bursztein | https://elie.net/blog/ai/attacks-against-machine-learning-an-overview/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Automating Inequality | Virgina Eubanks | https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317 | Maria Axente | Book |
Behind the Screen - Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media | Sarah T. Roberts | https://www.behindthescreen-book.com | Maria Axente | Book |
Black Software The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter | Charlton McIlwain | https://blacksoftware.com/black-software-movement/ | Maria Axente | Book |
Culture and Human-Robot Interaction in Militarized Spaces | Julie Carpenter | https://www.routledge.com/Culture-and-Human-Robot-Interaction-in-Militarized-Spaces-A-War-Story/Carpenter/p/book/9781472443113 | Mia Shah Dand | Book |
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness | Simone Browne | https://www.dukeupress.edu/dark-matters | Maria Axente | Book |
Data Feminism | Catherine DIgnazio and Lauren F. Klein | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism | Maria Axente | Book |
Data and Goliath - The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World | Bruce Schneier | https://www.amazon.com/Data-Goliath-Battles-Collect-Control/dp/039335217X | Cortnie Abercrombie | Book |
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need | Sasha Costanza-Chock | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/design-justice | Maria Axente | Book |
Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures | Andre Brock Jr | https://nyupress.org/9781479829965/distributed-blackness/ | Maria Axente | Book |
Don’t Believe Every AI You See | danah boyd | https://ai.shorensteincenter.org/ideas/2018/11/12/dont-believe-every-ai-you-see-1 | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Ethical AI Resources | Ethical AI Resources | https://ethicalairesources.com | Dagmar Monett | Resource |
Ethical IT Innovation | Sarah Spiekermann | https://www.routledge.com/Ethical-IT-Innovation-A-Value-Based-System-Design-Approach/Spiekermann/p/book/9781482226355 | John Havens | Book |
Ethically Aligned Design | IEEE | https://standards.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-standards/standards/web/documents/other/ead_v2.pdf | Maria Axente | Paper |
Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI | High-Level Expert Group on AI | https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/ethics-guidelines-trustworthy-ai | Maria Axente | Paper |
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, & Big Business Re-create Race in the 21 Century | Dorothy Roberts | https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Invention-Politics-Re-create-Twenty-first/dp/1595588345 | Maria Axente | Book |
Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass | Mary L Gray and Siddharth Suri | https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Work-Silicon-Building-Underclass/dp/1328566242 | Maria Axente | Book |
Giving Algorithms a Sense of Uncertainty Could Make Them More Ethical | Karen Hao | https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612764/giving-algorithms-a-sense-of-uncertainty-could-make-them-more-ethical/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Heartificial Intelligence | John Havens | http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_9780698169036,00.html | Maria Axente | Book |
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race | Margot Lee Shetterly | https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hidden-Figures-Untold-African-American/dp/0008201323 | Maria Axente | Book |
How AI Will Rewire Us | Nicholas Christakis | https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/robots-human-relationships/583204/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
If AI Is Going to Be the World’s Doctor, It Needs Better Books | Dave Gershgorn | https://qz.com/1367177/if-ai-is-going-to-be-the-worlds-doctor-it-needs-better-textbooks/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Joanna Brysons personal repository of papers | Joanna Bryson | http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb/web/publications.html | Joanna Bryson | Paper |
Malicious Uses of AI | Miles Brundage | https://openai.com/blog/preparing-for-malicious-uses-of-ai/ | Scott Hawley | Paper |
Moral Deskilling and Upskilling in a New Machine Age | Shannon Vallor | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13347-014-0156-9 | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Programmed Inequality | Mar Hicks | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programmed-inequality | Maria Axente | Book |
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code” | Ruha Benjamin | https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology | Maria Axente | Book |
Reading List for Markkula Center for Applied Ethics | Irina Raicu | https://www.scu.edu/ethics/internet-ethics-blog/readings-in-ai-ethics/ | Irina Raicu | Resources |
Recoding Gender: Womens Changing Participation in Computing | Janet Abbate | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/recoding-gender | Maria Axente | Book |
Recommendations of the Data Ethics Commission for the Federal Government’s Strategy on Artificial Intelligence | Data Ethics Commission | https://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Themen/Fokusthemen/Gutachten_DEK_EN_lang.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3 | Maria Axente | Paper |
Responsible Artificial Intelligence - How to Develop and Use AI in a Responsible Way | Virginia Dignum | https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030303709 | Maria Axente | Book |
Should We Be Afraid of AI? | Luciano Floridi | https://aeon.co/essays/true-ai-is-both-logically-possible-and-utterly-implausible | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Style Is an Algorithm | Kyle Chayka | https://www.vox.com/2018/4/17/17219166/fashion-style-algorithm-amazon-echo-look | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Superior - The Return of Race Science | Angela Saini | https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/607248/superior-by-angela-saini/9780807076910 | Maria Axente | Book |
Technically Wrong | Sara Wachter-Breacher | https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/technically-wrong-sara-wachter-boettcher/1126829950 | Mia Shah Dand | Book |
Technology and The Virtues | Shannon Vallor | https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780190498511 | Mia Shah Dand | Book |
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Shoshana Zuboff | https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ | Maria Axente | Book |
The Alan Turing Institute | The Alan Turing Institute | https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-areas | Maria Axente | Resources |
The Big Nine | Amy Webb | https://www.amazon.com/Big-Nine-Thinking-Machines-Humanity/dp/1541773756 | Cortnie Abercrombie | Book |
The Black Box Society | Frank Pasquale | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674970847 | Maria Axente | Book |
The Costs of Connection-How Data Is Colonizing Human Life & Appropriating It for Capitalism | Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias | https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=28816 | Maria Axente | Book |
The Ethics of Automation: Poetry and Robot Priests | David O’Hara | http://slowperc.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-ethics-of-automation-poetry-and.html | Irina Raicu | Paper |
The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence: Resources | The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. | http://www.lcfi.ac.uk/resources/ | Maria Axente | Resources |
The State of AI Ethics Report - June 2020 | Montreal AI Ethics Institute | https://montrealethics.ai/the-state-of-ai-ethics-report-june-2020/ | Abishek Gupta | Paper |
The Weirdest Languages | Tyler Schnoebelen | https://corplinguistics.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/the-weirdest-languages/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Toward inclusive tech policy design: a method for underrepresented voices to strengthen tech policy documents | Batya Friedman, Meg Young, Lassana Magassa | http://techpolicylab.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/TowardInclusiveTechPolicyDesign.pdf | Cortnie Abercrombie | Paper |
Trustworthy Machine Learning | Kush Varshney | http://www.trustworthymachinelearning.com | Shobhit Varshney | Book |
Value Sensitive Design | Batya Friedman and David Henry | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/value-sensitive-design | Cortnie Abercrombie | Book |
We Dont Need Robots that Resemble Humans | Evan Selinger | https://medium.com/s/when-robots-rule-the-world/we-dont-need-robots-that-resemble-humans-37bc79484f18 | Irina Raicu | Paper |
Weapons of Math Destruction | Cathy ONeil | https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com | Maria Axente | Book |
When Are Predictions Policies? | Zachary Lipton | http://approximatelycorrect.com/2019/02/13/when-are-predictions-policies/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
When Biometrics Fail Gender, Race, and the Technology of Identity | Shoshana Magnet | https://www.dukeupress.edu/when-biometrics-fail | Maria Axente | Book |
Why Robustness Is Key to Deploying AI | Jacob Steinhardt and Helen Toner | https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/why-robustness-is-key-to-deploying-ai/ | Irina Raicu | Paper |
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