Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech | Synapse
November 4, 2021Open Access
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in Big Tech
Key Points
Examine the ethical challenges faced by big tech companies due to algorithmic biases.
Conducted a literature review of existing studies on algorithmic outcomes.
Identified trends in ethics discourse within the tech industry.
Highlighted the prevalence of biased algorithmic systems across major tech platforms.
Demonstrated a lack of equitable outcomes in various applications.
Abstract
Big Tech knows it has an ethics problem. From algorithmic systems that deliver biased and inequitable outcomes (Sweeney, 2013; Buolamwini and Gebru, 2018; Noble, 2018; Abid et al., 2021; Phan and W...