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How to conduct systematic literature reviews in management research: a guide in 6 steps and 14 decisions
Philipp C. Sauer, Stefan Seuring, Review of Managerial Science, 2023/05/16

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When I read the title my first thought was 'literature reviews so easy an AI could do it'. My assessment wasn't far off. "Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have become a standard tool in many fields of management research... The paper adopts a well-established six-step SLR process and refines it by sub-dividing the steps into 14 distinct decisions: (1) from the research question, via (2) characteristics of the primary studies, (3) to retrieving a sample of relevant literature, which is then (4) selected and (5) synthesized so that, finally (6), the results can be reported." Why would we depend on humans to do this work in the future?

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They shall be fair, transparent, and robust: auditing learning analytics systems
Katharina Simbeck, AI and Ethics, 2023/05/16

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This article presents ethics as essentially 'solved': "In the near future, systems, that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods, such as machine learning, are required to be certified or audited for fairness if used in ethically sensitive fields such as education... Ensuring fairness, transparency, and robustness requires looking at data, models, system processes, and the use of systems as the ethical implications arise at the intersection between those." Questions concerning care, harms, or community are elided out of the discussion.

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Don't pause AI development, prioritize ethics instead
Christina Montgomery, Francesca Rossi, IBM Blog, 2023/05/16

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I'll just make the same point I always make when the discussion takes this turn: which ethics? Whose ethics? I mean, nobody is beating a path to my ethics course of a few years ago, but if I showed anything in that work I think, I showed that there's no one system of ethics to which we can appeal. And this becomes especially problematic when we start talking about enshrining a legalistic and (dare I say) corporatist interpretation of ethics for all time in the constitution of these AI systems. As always, I'm far more worried about the ethics of the human implementers than I am about what the machine might do.

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Google is Rolling out Passkeys to Make Passwords a Relic of the Past
Sergio De Simone, InfoQ, 2023/05/16

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As this article reports, "Google has begun rolling out support for passkeys across Google Accounts on all major platforms. Passkeys will be available as an additional authentication option alongside pre-existing mechanisms, including passwords, 2-step verification, and so on." The idea is that you have a 'key' on your device, which logs in to online services for you, and a cloud service that allows you to synchronize the same key across multiple devices. The trick to all of these identity services is to find a way to let you log in to access services, without being identified and tracked all over the internet via one single user account. I think this sort of technology is an important step forward, but as is so often the case Google is botching the rollout (they don't work, for example, on an organizational account, which is what I have).

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