Caroline Chavier shared her A List to know more about ethics in AI, so you won't be short of reading material this year.

1. “Your A List of books about AI and Ethics”
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“L’Intelligence artificielle n’existe pas” de Luc Julia
Vous ne comprenez rien à l'intelligence artificielle (IA) ? Vous avez peur que de méchants
robots prennent le pouvoir et finissent par contrôler le monde ? Vous vous intéressez à l'IA et
aux nouvelles technologies, mais vous aimeriez entendre un autre son de cloche ? Alors ce
livre est pour vous ! " Tout est parti d'un immense malentendu. En 1956, lors de la conférence
de Dartmouth, John McCarthy a convaincu ses collègues d'employer l'expression « intelligence
artificielle » pour décrire une discipline qui n'avait rien à voir avec l'intelligence. Tous les
fantasmes et les fausses idées dont on nous abreuve aujourd'hui découlent de cette
appellation malheureuse. "
https://www.parislibrairies.fr/livre/9782412043400-l-intelligence-artificielle-n-existe-pas-julia-luc/
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“Quand la machine apprend” de Yann Le Cun
“Nous vivons une révolution inouïe, inimaginable il y a encore cinquante ans, celle de
la machine qui apprend, et qui apprend par elle-même. Au lieu d'exécuter les ordres
d'un programme, la machine peut désormais acquérir par elle-même, par l'expérience,
les capacités nécessaires pour accomplir les tâches qui lui sont assignées, y compris
celles que l'on croyait réservées à l'humain. Les applications sont immenses :
reconnaissance des formes, des voix, des images et des visages, voiture autonome,
traduction de centaines de langues, détection des tumeurs dans les images
médicales... Yann Le Cun est à l'origine de cette révolution.”
https://www.parislibrairies.fr/livre/9782738149312-quand-la-machine-apprend-yann-le-cun/
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“La tyrannie des algorithmes” de Miguel Benasayag
Miguel Benasayag sonne ici l'alerte face au danger que représente le pouvoir
croissant des algorithmes sur nos démocraties. Car c'est au quotidien que la vie
collective est insidieusement "prise en charge" par l'Intelligence Artificielle. Refusant la
polarisation entre technophobes et technophiles, il livre un plaidoyer pour repenser la
conflictualité en démocratie.
https://www.parislibrairies.fr/livre/9782845977891-la-tyrannie-des-algorithmes-miguel-benasayag/
A bit of philosophy

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“De l’autre côté de la machine” d’Aurélie Jean
“Qui sont ces « algorithmes » qui bouleversent notre quotidien ? Que se trouve-t-il de l'autre côté
de l'iceberg mathématique ? « Algorithmes » : voilà un mot décrié, que beaucoup pensent
comprendre, mais que peu savent manier. Pour l'éminente scientifique et entrepreneure Aurélie
Jean, pourtant, rien de plus simple, de plus lisible qu'une ligne de code : la promesse de
comprendre, par la virtualisation des phénomènes, la vie elle-même ; l'ensemble des
phénomènes physiques, économiques ou sociétaux - de tout système, vivant ou inerte. Écrire un
algorithme, c'est dessiner un chemin de résolution pour un problème donné, un moyen précis et
fiable d'accéder à la réponse recherchée.”
https://www.parislibrairies.fr/livre/9791032905401-de-l-autre-cote-de-la-machine-voyage-d-une-scientifique-a
u-pays-des-algorithmes-aurelie-jean/
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“Algorithmes : la bombe à retardement” de Cathy O'Neil
“Ce livre est un manuel de survie pour le citoyen du XXIe siècle” d’après le Financial
Times.
Les données que nous laissons chaque jour sur Internet nourrissent des modèles
mathématiques. Éducation, emploi, crédit, vie amoureuse, nos habitudes sont codées.
De nombreux algorithmes ont même modélisé nos préjugés ! Ces algorithmes
contrôlent de plus en plus d'aspects de notre existence sans que nous le sachions.
Les fondations de notre société sont insensiblement modifiées. Et cela ne fait que
commencer!”
https://www.parislibrairies.fr/livre/9782352049807-algorithmes-la-bombe-a-retardement-o-neil-cathy/
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“Artificial Unintelligence” from Meredith Broussard
“In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm
for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous
amount of poorly designed systems. We are so eager to do everything
digitally—hiring, driving, paying bills, even choosing romantic partners—that we have
stopped demanding that our technology actually work. Broussard, a software
developer and journalist, reminds us that there are fundamental limits to what we can
(and should) do with technology.
Making a case against technochauvinism—the belief that technology is always the
solution—Broussard argues that it's just not true that social problems would inevitably
retreat before a digitally enabled Utopia.”
https://www.parislibrairies.fr/livre/9782352049807-algorithmes-la-bombe-a-retardement-o-neil-cathy/
Intelligence?

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“Automating Inequality” from Virginia Eubanks
“Since the dawn of the digital age, decision-making in finance, employment, politics,
health and human services has undergone revolutionary change. Today, automated
systems—rather than humans—control which neighborhoods get policed, which
families attain needed resources, and who is investigated for fraud. While we all live
under this new regime of data, the most invasive and punitive systems are aimed at
the poor.
In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of
data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and
working-class people in America. The book is full of heart-wrenching and
eye-opening stories, from a woman in Indiana whose benefits are literally cut off as
she lays dying to a family in Pennsylvania in daily fear of losing their daughter because
they fit a certain statistical profile.”
https://www.amazon.com/Automating-Inequality-High-Tech-Profile-Police-ebook/dp/B0739MF8VF
Inequalities

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“Race After Technology” from Ruha Benjamin
“Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging
technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.
Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers
scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination
while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous
era.
The author presents the concept of the "New Jim Code," she shows how a range of
discriminatory designs encode inequity by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies; by
ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions; or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately
doing quite the opposite.
The book provides conceptual tools for decoding tech promises with sociologically
informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies
we are sold but also the ones we ourselves manufacture.”
https://www.parislibrairies.fr/ebook/9781509526437-race-after-technology-ruha-benjamin/
Race discrimination ...

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“Algorithms of Oppression” from Safiya Umoja Noble
“A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in
search engine results and algorithms
In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines
like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data
discrimination is a real social problem; Noble argues that the combination of private
interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small
number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege
whiteness and discriminate against people of color, specifically women of color.”
https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
Race discrimantion II

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“Responsible Artificial Intelligence” from Virginia Dignum
“In this book, the author examines the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence
systems as they integrate and replace traditional social structures in new
sociocognitive-technological environments. She discusses issues related to the
integrity of researchers, technologists, and manufacturers as they design, construct,
use, and manage artificially intelligent systems [...]
Throughout the book the author discusses related work, conscious of both classical,
philosophical treatments of ethical issues and the implications in modern, algorithmic
systems, and she combines regular references and footnotes with suggestions for
further reading.”
https://books.google.fr/books?id=EEO8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA12&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=o
nepage&q&f=false
Ethics

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“Invisible Women” from Caroline Criado Perez
“Invisible Women shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are
systematically ignoring half the population. It exposes the gender data gap – a gap in
our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women,
and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women’s
lives.
From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplaces, urban
planning and the media, Invisible Women reveals the biased data that excludes
women.”
https://www.parislibrairies.fr/ebook/9781473548299-invisible-women-caroline-criado-perez/
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