Data Ethics in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Recently, the UK Department of Education discarded grades generated by an algorithm designed to predict the performance of annual A(advance) Level qualification. This initiative was taken due to the COVID pandemic and the result predicted by the algorithm was downgraded by more than a third of A level results in the UK. The developed model primarily focussed on two features'student's past performance' and'school's historical performance' to predict the grades of the students. The prediction of the algorithm went in favor of the private schools and the secondary selective and sixth form schools where teacher assessment used to be good severely impacted. Unethical facial recognition -- In the Washington Post article, it was published that how US's Immigration and Customs Enforcement unethically collected a large volume of data to analyze day-to-day activities of immigrant communities.