Seminar period 3 2022/2023: Ethical responsibilities

  • Due No due date
  • Points 1
  • Available after 1 Feb 2023 at 10:00

Reflection seminar in February 2023

Here you find instructions for how to prepare for the seminar and the group schedule of the seminar. Before the seminar, you also need to write a reflection document and read and comment on other group members' reflection documents.

The first two qualitative targets of the Swedish degree of master are:

  • demonstrate the ability to make assessments in the main field of study informed by relevant disciplinary, social and ethical issues and also to demonstrate awareness of ethical aspects of research and development work
  • demonstrate insight into the possibilities and limitations of research, its role in society and the responsibility of the individual for how it is used

In this seminar, you will reflect on your ethical responsibilities for how your work is used.

Preparations for the reflection

  • There will be new groups during the seminars in period 3 and 4. The groups are based on the (sub)track that you reported in the track/subtrack quiz before Christmas. The groups are now fixed and cannot be changed. Find your new group number in Grades/Omdömen (under Group number, spring 2023), a number between 101 and 124. Also look up below who is the mentor of your group.
  • An influential 2018 study found that state-of-the-art facial-recognition software performed much worse at identifying the gender of women and people of colour than at classifying the faces of white men.  Since then, calls for bans of facial-recognition software have frequently quoted concerns over demographic bias. ACLU attorney Phil Mayor says "[the technology] remains too dangerous a tool for governments to use to surveil their own citizens for no compelling return." Please read the following article: Castelvecchi, Davide (November 18, 2020). "Is facial recognition too biased to be let loose?" Nature 587, 347-349 (2020). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03186-4 Links to an external site.
  • The 2021 storming of the United States Capitol was a violent attack against the US Congress at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. According to Renee DiResta, a researcher at the Stanford Internet Observatory, the violence was the result of online movements operating in closed social media networks. Please read the following article: Frenkel, Sheera (January 6, 2021). "The storming of Capitol Hill was organized on social media". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 6, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
    https://web.archive.org/web/20210106220539/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/protesters-storm-capitol-hill-building.html Links to an external site.
  • Watch the first 8m30s of the talk "Code Is Not Neutral: the Ethics of Programming"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7tRWuXlOak Links to an external site. by Clarissa Peterson.
  • Please read the Wikipedia article about the 2021 Facebook leak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_leak Links to an external site.). Quoting Wikipedia: "In 2021, an internal document leak from the company then known as Facebook (now Meta Platforms, or Meta) showed it was aware of harmful societal effects from its platforms. The leak, released by whistleblower Frances Haugen, resulted in reporting from The Wall Street Journal in September, as The Facebook Files series, as well as the Facebook Papers, by a consortium of news outlets the next month."

Group schedule

Find your group number in the table below and look up when and where your seminar will be. The seminar is about 50 minutes, and it is important to be on time. Notice the odd starting times (10 minutes past)! 

The seminar will be a walking seminar, starting from the meeting place.

Group number Mentor Track - subtrack Date and time for walking seminar Meeting place for walking seminar
101 Philipp Haller software technology - programming languages February 14 at 8:10 Via Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/61011987361 Links to an external site.
102 Philipp Haller software technology - software engineering February 14 at 9:10 Via Zoom: https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/61011987361 Links to an external site.
103 Cyrille Artho software technology - software engineering February 14 at 9:10 In front of Lindstedtsvägen 17
104 Cyrille Artho software technology - software engineering February 16 at 15:10 In front of Lindstedtsvägen 17
105 Tino Weinkauf visualization and interactive graphics February 14 at 9:10 In front of Lindstedtsvägen 9
106 Tino Weinkauf visualization and interactive graphics February 16 at 15:10 In front of Lindstedtsvägen 9
107 Johan Jansson scientific computing February 14 at 9:10 In front of Lindstedsvägen 1
108 Johan Jansson software technology - software engineering February 16 at 15:10 In front of Lindstedsvägen 1
109 Viggo Kann data science - natural language processing February 16 at 15:10 Under the vault near Osquars backe 12 (opposite the library entrance)
110 Viggo Kann theoretical computer science February 16 at 16:10 Under the vault near Osquars backe 12 (opposite the library entrance)
111 Mårten Björkman data science - machine learning February 14 at 9:10 In front of the F2 entrance, Lindstedtsvägen 28
112 Mårten Björkman cognitive systems - vision and robotics February 16 at 15:10 In front of the F2 entrance, Lindstedtsvägen 28
113 Stefan Nilsson software technology - software engineering February 16 at 15:10 In front of Lindstedtsvägen 9
114 Stefan Nilsson software technology February 16 at 16:10 In front of Lindstedtsvägen 9
115 Joakim Gustafson cognitive systems - conversational systems February 14 at 9:10 In front of the F1 entrance, Lindstedtsvägen 22
116 Joakim Gustafson software technology - software engineering February 16 at 15:10 In front of the F1 entrance, Lindstedtsvägen 22
117 Sten Ternström visualization and interactive graphics February 14 at 9:10 In front of Lindstedtsvägen 24
118 Sten Ternström interaction design February 16 at 15:10 In front of Lindstedtsvägen 24
119 Tomas Ekholm software technology - software engineering February 16 at 15:10 In front of Lindstedtsvägen 15
120 Tomas Ekholm software technology - software engineering February 16 at 16:10 In front of Lindstedtsvägen 15
121 Danica Kragic data science - machine learning February 16 at 15:10 In front of Teknikringen 14
122 Danica Kragic data science - machine learning February 16 at 16:10 In front of Teknikringen 14
123 Musard Balliu security and privacy February 14 at 9:10 At the Ada fountain in the middle of the courtyard
124 Musard Balliu security and privacy February 16 at 15:10 At the Ada fountain in the middle of the courtyard

All meeting places are outdoors, close to the Main building (D and E buildings). 
The meeting places are marked as green circles in the map below.

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Swapping seminar with another student

If you are unable to attend the seminar with your group, you may try to find another student to swap seminar with, using the seminar group swap page.

Alternative seminars in Zoom

For those who absolutely cannot participate in the walking seminar due to illness, injury or similar, a Zoom seminar will be held jointly for all groups as an alternative, see below.

Groups Mentor at the Zoom seminar Date and time for Zoom seminar Link to the Zoom session
101-124 Musard Balliu February 16 at 16:10

https://kth-se.zoom.us/j/8088501391 Links to an external site.
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