Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL https://bit.ly/2wFsllB. Kathy Pham highlights considerations of ethics, social responsibility, and long-term impacts of software industry products. Pham discusses actions being taken in academia and industry today, as well as actionable paths forward to create cultures that build more responsible software and services for all people. Filmed at qconnewyork.com. Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, software engineer, and product leader who has spent over 12 years building products at Google, IBM, and the federal government at the United States Digital Service at the White House. She is currently researching the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab.

1. Ethics in Computing:
From Academia to Industry
Kathy Pham @kathytpham
Harvard Berkman Klein & MIT Media Lab Fellow
Former United States Digital Service, Google, IBM
QCon New York City | June 27th, 2018 | The Last Talk of the [Ethics Track] Day!

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4. Hi! I’m Kathy.

5. I can tell computers what to do!

6. A Twitter sentiment analysis in 2009

7. Using Readily Available Tools
… no one questioned our work.

8. Even gave us
funding for it!

13. Let’s honor all expertise across academia and
industry, and build better software.

14. A few recent public cases

15. Kate Crawford NIPS 2017; Bloomberg 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2016-amazon-same-day/
Amazon Prime Same Day Delivery United States Redlining in 1930s

16. ProPublica Evaluation of
COMPAS:
Correctional Offender
Management Profiling for
Alternative Sanctions

18. Joy Buolamwini and Facial Recognition

20. Before: Must have Internet Explorer and
Adobe 8 or 9

21. After: A web form!
The Team: Digital Service at the Veterans Affairs team
Emily Tavouleras, Mary Ann Brody, Albert Wong, Anne Kainic

23. Government in the Recent News

24. Government in Older News

25. In Academia

27. Choices for focus
in Computer Science

28. Crowdsourced List of Ethics Courses: 188 Universities, 197 Courses
Curator: Casey Fiesler

29. And many more initiatives at NYU, Cornell, Stanford, MIT, UT Austin, Utah, and beyond

30. In Industry

33. Eng vs. Non-Eng

34. SWE vs. Support

35. Honor All Expertise
Across Teams and Disciplines

36. Hire for disciplines with deep
experience in humans

37. Advocate for universities or
schools to think about
embedding ethics and social
responsibility, or treating it
as a core competency

38. Question often and use your
[powerful] voice.

41. Questions
Twitter: @kathytpham
Email: hello@kathytpham.com

43. Titles:
Honoring All Expertise: Social Responsibility and Ethics in Tech
Tech and Ethics, from Academia to Industry
Ethics in Computing, from Academia to Industry

44. Forms for Veterans
Adobe
Education

45. Bias
Women high paying jobs
Amazon Prime and Racist
Google Gorilla
Google Translate
Black/Gay/Jew = Negative in sentiment Analysis

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