Who would you like to win and by how much? Note that the proposal to provide voters with a receipt would detect fraud.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.08144

There is no Reliable Way to Detect Hacked Ballot-Marking Devices

Election system vendors are marketing ballot-marking devices (BMDs) as a universal system, and some states are deploying them for all voters, not just those who need a BMD to vote independently. Like all devices with CPUs, BMDs can be hacked, misprogrammed, or misconfigured. BMD printout might not reflect what the BMD screen or audio confirmed. If a voter complains that the BMD altered votes, officials have no way to tell whether there was a BMD malfunction, the voter erred, or the voter is attempting to cast doubt on the election.

… if parallel testing discovers an error, the only remedy is to hold a new election: there is no way to reconstruct the correct election result from an untrustworthy paper trail.

Interesting.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Three-Dimensions-of-Privacy-Policies-Morel-Pardo/3040d578b64eb4edc175c385eb8f886a91db2e52

Three Dimensions of Privacy Policies

Privacy policies are the main way to obtain information related to personal data collection and processing. Originally, privacy policies were presented as textual documents. However, the unsuitability of this format for the needs of today's society gave birth to others means of expression. In this report, we systematically study the different means of expression of privacy policies. In doing so, we have identified three main categories, which we call dimensions, i.e., natural language, graphical and machine-readable privacy policies. Each of these dimensions focus on the particular needs of the communities they come from, i.e., law experts, organizations and privacy advocates, and academics, respectively. We then analyze the benefits and limitations of each dimension, and explain why solutions based on a single dimension do not cover the needs of other communities. Finally, we propose a new approach to expressing privacy policies which brings together the benefits of each dimension as an attempt to overcome their limitations.

A guide for legislators?

http://srvapp2s.urisan.tche.br/seer/index.php/direitosculturais/article/view/2816

GOVERNANCE OF INTERNET OF THINGS AND ETHICS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The continuous interaction between intelligent devices, sensors and people points to the increasing number of data being produced, stored and processed, changing, in various aspects and increasingly, our daily life. On one hand, the context of hyperconnectivity can bring economic benefits to the State, companies, as well as convenience to consumers. On the other hand, increasing connectivity brings significant challenges in the spheres of privacy protection and contemporary ethics, impacting, ultimately, democracy itself. This thesis addresses, from the regulatory point of view, some of these challenges faced by the current rule of law arising from the advance of the scenario called Internet of Things.

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A glossary for my next (Okay, my first) AI course.

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/understanding-artificial-intelligence-a-comprehensive-glossary-of-terms-and-definitions/

UNDERSTANDING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A COMPREHENSIVE GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

Worth grabbing.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06165

Oxford Handbook on AI Ethics Book Chapter on Race and Gender

27 pages with references

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.06165

For an Economist I know. (I wonder if my students know who Adam Smith is?)

https://www.bbntimes.com/en/global-economy/how-adam-smith-s-idea-of-the-division-of-labor-led-to-the-digital-computer

HOW ADAM SMITH'S IDEA OF THE DIVISION OF LABOR LED TO THE DIGITAL COMPUTER

Herbert Simon and Allen Newell tell the story of how Adam Smith's ideas directly led to the development of the digital computer in an address delivered to the Twelfth National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 14, 1957.

… I should like to tell you a true story, culled from [Charles] Babbage's writings, about the history of the computer. I like this story because it illustrates not only my earlier point about the many mutual relations of the professions in our field, but also because it gives the underdogs like myself-trained in 'soft' fields like economics and political science something we can point to when the superior accomplishments of the natural sciences become too embarrassing for us. As you will see, this story shows that physicists and electrical engineers had little to do with the invention of the digital computer--that the real inventor was the economist Adam Smith, whose idea was translated into hardware through successive stages of development by two mathematicians, Prony and Babbage. (I should perhaps mention that the developers owed a debt also to the French weavers and mechanics responsible for the Jacquard loom, and consequently for the punched card.)