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Everyone is welcome to get involved in Data Ethics Club, as much or as little as youâd like to! We would love to hear your point of view at our discussion groups, to have your support in organising or running a meeting, or to add your contributions to our reading list.
You donât need to be a data ethicist (weâre not!), or a data scientist - having a variety of different people is how we learn from each other. Itâs a friendly and welcoming group and we often have new people drop by, so why not try it?
We meet every other week for one hour on Zoom (Wednesdays, 1pm, UK time) to talk about something from the reading list. Out upcoming meeting dates are available below. If you would like to get email reminders about the content and dates for the next meeting then click below to join our mailing list!
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Upcoming meetings#
These are the meetings for the next academic term.
We will update the material and questions based on the previous weeksâ vote.
All meetings are held at 1pm UK time and last one hour. If you are in another timezone please use a time/date converter like this one to check your local time!
Join the meeting on the following Zoom link: https://bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96026442410
You can see the write ups of previous meetings here!
22th January - Data Ethics New Yearâs Resolutions Special#
As very optional reading material, you could look at our previous new yearâs resolutions from 2024, 2023, and 2022.
5th February#
Material: TBC
19th February#
Material: TBC
5th March - International Womenâs Day Special#
Material: TBC
2nd April#
Material: TBC
16th April#
Material: TBC
30th April#
Material: TBC
Summer Book Club#
For our summer 2025 bookclub, we will be reading AI Snake Oil: What artificial intelligence can do, what it canât and how to tell the difference by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.
On their website you can read the first chapter online for free, see what each chapter is about and see the suggested exercises and discussion prompts by the authors to get an idea of the kinds of conversation we might be having.
There are 8 chapters and the exact schedule is still to be determined (weâll be asking our community what works best for them as we did with our last bookclub) but the rough schedule looks something like:
11th June: Chapter 1 - Introduction (34 pages)
18th June: Chapter 2 - How predictive AI goes wrong (24 pages)
2nd July: Chapter 3 - Why canât AI predict the future? (39 pages)
16th July: Chapter 4 - The Long Road to Generative AI (51 pages)
23rd July: Chapter 5 - Is Advanced AI an Existential Threat? (27 pages)
6th August Chapter 6 - Why canât AI fix social media? (48 pages)
13th August: Chapter 7 - Why do myths about AI persist? (31 pages)
20th August: Chapter 8 - Where do we go from here? (27 pages)
Past Meetings#
You can see a record of what we have discussed previously here.