About Rowenna Fielding
writing about data protection, ePrivacy and data ethics
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TL;DR: ‘AI literacy’ training is a waste of time/effort/money because the problem isn’t insufficiency of expertise, it’s lack of insight into human factors. Bear with me….. IMHO, the average non-techie end user of Data Fairy products/services would be MUCH better served by education on recognising and reasoning past human cognitive biases and logical fallacies , than by ‘training’ on...
AI Literacy: Hot Take
Feb 19, 2025
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Triggered by this: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ai-cameras-emotions-uk-train-passengers/ Welcome to the 21stC, where ‘freedom of expression’ now means not having to worry about whether your facial geometry and movements are performing the ‘right’ machine-readable signals in public to appease authoritarians, advertisers and [other] abusive types. Disfigurement? Paralysis? Autistic? Ti...
Rant: Emotion-inference AI
Jun 19, 2024
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Bank of Ireland UK reprimanded by the ICO for data errors on >3k customer accounts https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2023/12/bank-of-ireland-uk-reprimanded-for-inaccurate-data-on-customers-accounts/ We’ll never know how many people were declared ineligible for financial products they’d applied for, as a result of these data errors, or the knock-on impact to their ...
Not A Numbers Game
Dec 15, 2023
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