Responsible AI: bridging from ethics to practice
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3445973. Recommendations for increasing the benefits of artificial intelligence technologies.
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Supercomputing Around the World: A look at the Top500 as of 11/2021
With the release of the November 2021 Top500 list of supercomputers, it is time again to have a look at the distribution of supercomputers worldwide. Notable new/updated entries…
How AI can be a force for good
How AI can be a force for good through ethical frameworks to keep humans in the loop published in Science.
Black Software: Black Communities and the Early Internet and Racial Justice and Technology Today
In an interview, from February 2021, Charlton McIlwain talks about how software and technology have long saturated our daily lives and the feedbacks that exist with sub culture…
Primum non nocere
“First, do no harm” is a phrase often associated with the Hippocratic Oath or in recent times more often a variant of the Declaration of Geneva which in…
“Please stop submitting known-invalid patches.”
Open source software is an important cornerstone to the HPC community, spanning all layers from the operating systems, middlewares, and actual applications. But the very intentionally open dynamic…
The AI Index Report
Earlier in March, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) release the 2021 AI Index report . The importance of ethical questions in relation to this technology is…
Overview of Edge Surveillance Practices at Protests
In an interesting talk, Kurt Opsahl enumerates various commonly used surveillance practices deployed at protests and large gatherings . While this may not seem directly related to HPC,…
On Allocating Scarce Resources “Fairly”
Maybe there is a lesson to be learned for HPC from common practices in medicine. The lack of organs that can be transplanted creates several ethical dilemmas without…
Supercomputing Around the World: A look at the Top500 as of 11/2020
With the release of the Nov 2020 Top500 list of supercomputers, it is time again to have a look at the distribution of supercomputers worldwide. Notable new entries…