Kirsten Martin

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• Article

  Breaking the Privacy Paradox: The Value of Privacy and Associated Duty of Firms

  By: Kirsten Martin

  Appeared In: Business Ethics Quarterly

  The privacy paradox is the perceived disconnect between individuals’ stated privacy expectations and consumer market behavior in going online. This paper empirically examines the conceptualization of privacy post-disclosure assumed in the privacy paradox.

• Article

  What Is It About Location?

  By: Kirsten Martin, Helen Nissenbaum

  Appeared In: Berkeley Technology Law Journal

  This article reports on a set of empirical studies that reveal how people think about location data, how these conceptions relate to expectations of privacy, and what this might mean for law, regulation, and technological design.

• Article

  Designing Ethical Technology Requires Systems for Anticipation and Resilience

  By: Kirsten Martin, Bidhan (Bobby) Parmar

  Appeared In: MIT Sloan Management Review

  The increased speed and scale of emerging technologies can make ethical lapses more likely, more costly, and harder to recover from. To reduce ethical lapses, organizations need two kinds of systems: systems for anticipation and systems for resilience.

• Article

  Algorithmic Bias and Corporate Responsibility: How companies hide behind the false veil of the technological imperative

  By: Kirsten Martin

  Appeared In: Ethics of Data and Analytics

  In this book chapter, Martin argues that acknowledging the value-laden biases of algorithms as inscribed in design allows us to identify the associated responsibility of corporations that design, develop, and deploy algorithms.

• Article

  Are Algorithmic Decisions Legitimate? The Effect of Process and Outcomes on Perceptions of Legitimacy of AI Decisions

  By: Kirsten Martin, Ari Waldman

  Appeared In: Journal of Business Ethics

  To date, the algorithmic accountability literature has elided a fundamentally empirical question important to business ethics and management: Under what circumstances, if any, are algorithmic decision-making systems considered legitimate?

• Article

  AI and Corporate Responsibility: How and Why Firms Are Responsible for AI

  By: Kirsten Martin, Carolina Villegas-Galaviz

  Appeared In: Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics

  This entry from the Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics explains how we think about corporate responsibility around the design, development, and use of AI.

• Article

  Manipulation, Privacy, and Choice

  By: Kirsten Martin

  Appeared In: North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

  This article examines targeted manipulation as the covert leveraging of a specific target’s vulnerabilities to steer their decisions and positions online targeted manipulation as undermining the core economic assumptions of authentic choice in the market.

• Book

  Ethics of Data and Analytics: Concepts and Cases

  By: Kirsten Martin

  As the collection of our personal data has become pervasive, with the details gathered themselves a commodity, traditional norms of business ethics have often proven inadequate. This anthology aims to jumpstart the conversation on how to adapt.

• Review

  Review of “Algorithmic bias: on the implicit biases of social technology”

  By: Kirsten Martin, Warren von Eschenbach

  ND TEC’s Martin and von Eschenbach write that this article by Gabbrielle Johnson “makes a rigorous, compelling, and clear argument against the fabled ‘objectivity’ of computer science.”

• Article

  Governing algorithmic decisions: The role of decision importance and governance on perceived legitimacy of algorithmic decisions

  By: Kirsten Martin, Ari Waldman

  Appeared In: Big Data & Society

  Martin and Waldman explore the relative importance of the type of decision, the procedural governance, the input data used, and outcome errors on perceptions of the legitimacy of algorithmic public policy decisions as compared to similar human decisions.

• Article

  Predatory predictions and the ethics of predictive analytics

  By: Kirsten Martin

  Appeared In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

  Martin examines ethical issues introduced by predictive analytics—which use data from the past to create a model that predicts future human behavior—arguing firms can have a market incentive to construct deceptively inflated true-positive outcomes.

• Article

  Moral distance, AI, and the ethics of care

  By: Kirsten Martin, Carolina Villegas-Galaviz

  Appeared In: AI & Society

  Villegas-Galaviz and Martin investigate how the introduction of AI to decision-making increases what’s known as moral distance, a concept used to explain why individuals behave unethically towards those who are not seen.