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Richmond Wong Apr 19, 2023

Sharing a new (open access!) #CSCW paper co-authored with Michael Madaio & Nick Merrill:

"Seeing Like a Toolkit: How Toolkits Envision the Work of AI Ethics" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3579621

We analyze a set of AI ethics toolkits to understand how they imagine the *work* of doing ethics. (Who's doing it? When and how? How should a worker justify doing ethics work?). Broadly there's a lack of guidance about org & institutional power dynamics.

(I'll be at #CHI2023 if you want to chat more!)

Seeing Like a Toolkit: How Toolkits Envision the Work of AI Ethics | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Numerous toolkits have been developed to support ethical AI development. However, toolkits, like all tools, encode assumptions in their design about what work should be done and how. In this paper, we conduct a qualitative analysis of 27 AI ethics ...

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

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Richmond Wong

In the paper, we identify a mismatch between the imagined work of ethics and the support the toolkits provide for doing that work. In particular, we identify a lack of guidance around how to navigate labor, organizational, and institutional power dynamics as they relate to performing ethical work. We use these omissions to chart future work for researchers and designers of AI ethics toolkits!

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3579621
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Seeing Like a Toolkit: How Toolkits Envision the Work of AI Ethics | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

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Richmond Wong Apr 21, 2023

This #CSCW paper analyzing how AI ethics toolkits imagine the work of *doing* ethics was co-authored by @elsehow!

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3579621

Seeing Like a Toolkit: How Toolkits Envision the Work of AI Ethics | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction