Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science.
This paper argues that the proposal for a 'Hippocratic oath for data science' is a severely limited form of data ethics for automated culture. Drawing on the oath used within medical professionalism, proponents as diverse as Wired and the European Data Protection Supervisor have argued for a Hippocr...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 168 - 190 |
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