IDH TV PRESENTS:
Algorithmic Ethics

IDH TV's Algorithmic Ethics collection is designed to get you up to speed on the latest video and multi-media assets the IDH has to offer on Algorithmic Ethics.

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This page offers a "crash course" on algorithms and the basics of how the IDH combats them, as well as information and insights into specific categories of algorithms. (We've also included a couple of our roundtable and town hall discussions, where the IDH and it's partners discussion specific algorithms and algorithmic concerns.

IDH TV Roundtables and Town Halls
 

Watch the IDH (Prof. Tom Freema) and Coded Bias Director Shalini Kantayya discuss algorithmic bias and reform on Nebraska Public Television/PBS.

Full video is to your left.  Annotated video clips are here.

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Stanford Race and Tech Fellow Elizabeth Adams was kind enough to join the IDH  for a roundtable on algorithmic ethics and tech company compliance.  

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Those videos -- and clips with annotations -- are here.

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Well, let us introduce you
-- gently --
to how algorithmic discrimination
is already becoming
a way of life in employment decisions. 

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(And to Social Credit Scores,
which is where we might be headed
if we let algorithms continue unchecked.)

Here's how we describe the inherent problems
with algorithms in our national pilot curriculum
(for high school students)
with the Anti-Defamation League and Bites Media.

A sneak peak at our lesson plan is here.

Want a hint at how the IDH gets
students and communities across
the country 
speaking together

(in a bi-partisan, mutli-faith, and cross-cultural way)
about algorithmic ethics?
 

And here's the proof that this method is working in classrooms across the country.

IDH TV Informercial on Algorithmic Factual Unreliability 

High school lesson plan (used by ADL) is here.  

Complete teacher resources are coming soon!

 

IDH TV Informercial on Algorithmic Bias. 

High school lesson plan (used by ADL) is here.  

Complete teacher resources are here.

 

IDH TV Informercial on Algorithmic Storytelling issues.

High school lesson plan (used by ADL) is here.  

Complete teacher resources are here.

Facial Recognition

Health-Related and Medical Algorithms

Unfortunately, these algorithms and biases infiltrate into healthcare as well. Here, students explore how these algorithms and systemic ineptitudes affect the health care people receive.

Predictive Policing

In an ongoing effort to be more efficient, many police departments seek algorithmic tools to assist them. Many of these tools, however, operate with unintentional bias and with questionable efficacy rates.

Housing Algorithms

Many see algorithms as the way of the future; so many mundane tasks can be completed automatically and without the need for human interaction. That can't possibly be a bad thing, can it?

Employment Algorithms

Jobs are pivotal to our lives, but algorithms used for employment -- both to screen candidates as well as advertise to potential candidates -- often perpetuate discriminatory hiring practices that companies hope to rid themselves of.

INTERVIEWS WITH POLITICIANS