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The AI Ethicist's Dirty Hands Problem

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Attempting to balance sometimes-conflicting interests.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 66, Issue 1
January 2023
97 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3578247
  • Editor:
  • James Larus
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Published: 20 December 2022
Published in CACM Volume 66, Issue 1

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  • (2024)Fair Column Subset SelectionProceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining10.1145/3637528.3672005(2189-2199)Online publication date: 25-Aug-2024

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