Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara Univ. Center. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional and was formerly an attorney in private practice. Her work addresses a wide variety of issues, ranging from online privacy to net neutrality, from data ethics to social media’s impact on friendship and family, from the digital divide to the ethics of encryption, and from the ethics of artificial intelligence to the right to be forgotten. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including The Atlantic, U.S.A. Today, MarketWatch, Slate, the Huffington Post, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Recode. Raicu is a member of the Partnership on AI's Working Group on Fair, Transparent, and Accountable AI.
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“It is interesting to hear them talk about strikes and regular rules when the other companies acknowledged these are unprecedented times and they need to do something more aggressive given the violence unraveling,” Raicu said. “I think YouTube would argue they would be more fair but fairness also requires treating people who are similarly situated and we are not in that situation."
"What they really need to prioritize and think about moving forward is how they will deal with the rise of the next Donald Trump. It's really hard when you have a figure like that who is probably very good for business."
"This sort of chatbot is already a violation of a deceased person’s autonomy—they have no say in which bits of their social data go into the final chatbot, for instance. And creating a chatbot modeled on a person who has never consented in the first place feels unfair, because they aren’t a part of the decision-making process."