Ethical implications of analyzing opinions, emotions and interactions in social media
Viviana Patti, Rossana Damiano, Cristina Bosco · 2017
The development of Artificial Intelligence techniques for human language processing implies not only new opportunities for research and industry, but also new responsibilities that the NLP and Computational Linguistics community as a whole must carefully take care of. At the same time, the availability of these tools is itself an opportunity for analysing human biases and preventing abuses by social media users. This position paper proposes an holistic reflection on the opportunities and risks brought about analysing human expressions in interaction, with the main aim of highlighting the need to acquire a new awareness of the possible non-ethical uses of automatic human-processing tools and the potential of their ethical uses.