Join in
Everyone is welcome to get involved in Data Ethics Club, as much or as little as you’d 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 don’t need to be a data ethicist (we’re not!), or a data scientist - having a variety of different people is how we learn from each other. It’s a friendly and welcoming group and we often have new people drop by, so why not try it?
If you’re looking for information on how to set up your own Data Ethics Club then you should head to our section about re-using our materials.
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If you would like an email before each meeting with the reading material and a link to the Zoom call then join the mailing list.
Sometimes we also send out information about other data ethics related events being organised by our community.
How our meetings work
We meet every other week (Wednesdays, 1pm, UK time) to talk about something from the reading list.
Out upcoming meeting dates are available below. They last one hour and are held on Zoom.
We usually hear a short summary of the piece, split into breakout rooms to discuss some prompts, and then come back together to share our thoughts as a group.
If you’d like a flavour of what we usually discuss then go to our Write Ups page and click on any of the summaries from past meetings to read about our discussions (these are also listed below).
We follow a code of conduct during Data Ethics Group which is designed to make sure everyone feels welcome and confortable sharing their experiences and take on the material.
Please read it before attending.
Upcoming meetings
Date (dd.mm.yyyy, UK time) |
Discussion Material |
|---|
14.12.2022, 1pm |
Defective Altruism |
11.01.2023, 1pm |
Data Ethics New Years Resolutions discussion! |
25.01.2023, 1pm |
To be decided |
08.02.2023, 1pm |
To be decided |
22.02.2023, 1pm |
To be decided |
08.03.2023, 1pm |
To be decided |
22.03.2023, 1pm |
To be decided |
Past Meetings
You can see a record of what we have discussed previously here.
Date |
Discussion Material |
Summary |
|---|
16.11.2022, 1pm |
The Ethics of AI Generated Art |
Coming soon! |
30.11.2022, 1pm |
Cancelled in support of the UCU strikes |
|
02.11.2022, 1pm |
The data was there – so why did it take coronavirus to wake us up to racial health inequalities? |
Read the write up |
19.10.2022, 1pm |
Patient and public involvement to build trust in artificial intelligence: A framework, tools, and case studies |
Read the write up |
05.10.2022, 1pm |
The Failures of Algorithmic Fairness |
Read the write up |
21.09.2022, 1pm |
Hacking the cis-tem |
Read the write up |
16.06.2022, 1pm |
Data Week Special - We watched a video by Virginia Eubanks (author of Automating Inequality) |
Read the write up |
01.06.2022, 1pm |
Participatory data stewardship |
Read the write up |
18.05.2022, 1pm |
Why Data Is Never Raw |
Read the write up |
04.05.2022, 1pm |
Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of “Ethics” in Big Tech |
Read the write up |
06.04.2022, 1pm |
The Algorithmic Colonization of Africa |
Read the write up |
23.03.2022, 1pm |
The Tyranny of Structurelessness |
Read the write up |
09.03.2022, 1pm |
AI in Warfare |
Read the write up |
23.02.2022, 1pm |
N/A |
Cancelled due to UCU Strikes. |
09.02.2022, 1pm |
“You Social Scientists Love Mind Games”: Experimenting in the “divide” between data science and critical algorithm studies |
Read the write up |
26.01.2022, 1pm |
Which Programming Languages Use The Least Electricity? |
Read the write up |
12.01.2022, 1pm |
Data Ethics Club’s New Years Resolutions - read the meeting summary for an overview |
Read the write up |
15.12.2021, 1pm |
The Reith Lectures: Onora O’Neill - A Question of Trust |
Read the write up |
01.12.2021, 1pm: CANCELLED UCU STRIKE |
NA: CANCELLED UCU STRIKE |
No meeting, but feel free to have a read about the strikes here |
17.11.2021, 1pm |
Statistics, Eugenics, and Me |
Read the write up |
03.11.2021, 1pm |
UK’s National AI Strategy - Pillar 3: Governing AI Effectively |
Read the write up |
20.10.2021, 1pm |
Towards decolonising computational sciences |
Read the write up |
06.10.2021, 1pm |
Structural Injustice and Individual Responsibility |
Read the write up |
NO MEETING 22.08 |
NO MEETING 22.08 |
N/A |
08.09.2021, 1pm |
ESR: Ethics and Society Review of Artificial Intelligence Research |
Read the write up |
25.08.2021, 1pm |
Participant’s Perceptions of Twitter Research Ethics |
Read the write up |
11.08.2021, 1pm |
What an ancient lake in Nevada reveals about the future of tech |
Read the write up |
28.07.2021, 1pm |
The Rise of Private Spies |
Read the write up |
14.07.2021, 1pm |
Numberphile: The Mathematics of Crime and Terrorism - Numberphile |
Read the write up |
17.06.2021: Inclusive and Ethical Data Science Seminar |
Responsible Data and AI by Anjali Mazumder, Intro to The Turing Way by Malvika Sharan, and FAT Forensics ToolBox by Alex Hepburn |
N/A |
16.06.2021: Screening of Coded Bias |
Coded Bias |
N/A |
26.05.2021, 1pm |
‘Living in the Hidden Realms of AI: The Workers Perspective’ |
Read the write up |
12.05.2021, 1pm |
Critical Perspectives on Computer Vision |
Read the write up |
28.04.2021, 1pm |
We created poverty. Algorithms won’t make that go away |
Read the write up |
14.04.2021, 1pm |
Identifying gaps, opportunities and priorities in the applied data ethics guidance landscape |
Read the write up |
31.03.2021, 1pm |
Dataism is Our New God |
Read the write up |
17.03.2021, 1pm |
#bropenscience is broken science |
Read the write up |
03.03.2021, 1pm |
Algorithmic injustice: a relational ethics approach (Birhane, 2021) |
Nina’s Twitter Summary |
17.02.2021, 1pm |
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? |
Natalie’s Twitter Summary |
03.02.2021, 1pm |
Ethics can’t be a side hustle |
Nina’s Twitter Summary |
20.01.2021, 1pm |
Executive Summary of the Review into bias in algorithmic decision making |
Brief summary on the meeting document |