Category: Bias
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Bias Isn’t the Only Problem with Credit Scores—and No, AI Can’t Help
Author: Will Douglas Heaven; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how it is a known fact that biased algorithms affect automatic decision-making processes. To fix this problem, many researchers and…
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Big Data Ethics and Politics: Toward New Understandings
Author: Wenhong Chen, Anabel Quan-Haase; Publisher: Social Science Computer Review; Publication Year: 2018. The following article addresses new issues created by big data, such as biases, subjectivities, and forms of oppression. They define 4 major…
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Discriminating Data
Author: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2021. The following book discusses the innate bias that comes from dirty data and how removing indicators of race will not remove bias from artificial…
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The Data Equity Framework
Analysis, Communication and Distribution, Data Collection, Data Sourcing, Equity, Funding, Interpretation, Motivation, Project Design, TransparencyAuthor: N/A; Publisher: We All Count; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how anytime data is involved, decisions are being made and those decisions have consequences. Equity needs to be at the forefront, and…
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Data Ethics & Mitigating Algorithmic Bias
Author: Vivek Katial; Publisher: Multitudes; Publication Year: N/A. The following article starts by introducing the profound effect that algorithms and, in particular, decisions from algorithms have on our life today. The author goes on to…
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Three Ways to Avoid Bias in Machine Learning
Author: Vince Lynch; Publisher: TechCrunch+; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how bias in artificial intelligence (AI) can cause problems both because AI outputs are often blindly trusted, so any missed human bias could…
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The Key Concepts of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
AI Ethics, AI Risk, Artificial Intelligence, Human Cognition, Laws and Regulation, Philosophy, Robotics, Self-Driving CarsAuthor: Ville Vakkuri, Pekka Abrahamsson; Publisher: IEEE Xplore; Publication Year: 2018. The following article seeks to find out what the reoccurring themes are in artificial intelligence (AI) ethics discourse as a way of understanding the…
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Handling Data Bias
Author: Vidhi Chugh; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how as a data scientist, if you want the product you are working on to be “[artificial intelligence (AI)] for good,” then it…
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Locked Out by Big Data: How Big Data, Algorithms and Machine Learning May Undermine Housing Justice
Artificial Intelligence, Discriminatory Practices, Facebook, Fair Housing Act, Housing Discrimination, RedliningAuthor: Valerie Schneider; Publisher: Columbia Human Rights Law Review; Publication Year: 2020. The following article is a very granular deep dive into how artificial intelligence (AI) can lead to discrimination in housing and how this…