Tag: Artificial Intelligence

How to Keep Human Bias Out of AI

Alexa, Artificial Intelligence, Gender Bias, Pregnancy, Racial Bias, Sexism, Siri, Targeted Advertising, Voice Assistants

Author: Kriti Sharma; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: N/A. The following video features Kriti Sharma who talks about how human-programmed artificial intelligence (AI) can have the biases of humans encoded into them and how this can…
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A.I. Bias Caused 80% Of Black Mortgage Applicants To Be Denied

Artificial Intelligence, Fairness, Fintech, Home Ownership, Mortgage, Racial Bias

Author: Kori Hale; Publisher: Forbes; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes a specific instance of an unethical artificial intelligence (AI) program where across the board minorities are being rejected from mortgage requests at higher…
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NIH Injects $130M to Provide Quality Tools, Data for AI in Medicine

AI-Ready Datasets, Artificial Intelligence, Behavioral Research, Biomedical Research, National Institutes of Health, NIH, Systemic Inequity

Author: Kirsten Errick; Publisher: Nextgov; Publication Year: 2022. The following article introduces a $130 million funding effort to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) solutions into National Institutes of Health (NIH) biomedical and behavioral research. This is…
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Evolutionary Game Theory Could Predict Dangerous AI

Artificial Intelligence, Business Environments, Data Science, Social Environments, Software Development

Author: Kimberly Mok; Publisher: TheNewStack; Publication Year: 2022. The following article takes a different approach to understanding ethics in data science. The author attempts to simulate the race to create smarter and smarter artificial intelligence…
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Center for Applied Data Ethics suggests treating AI like a bureaucracy

Accuracy, Anthropological Assessment, Artificial Intelligence, Power Exchanges, Privilege

Author: Khari Johnson; Publisher: VentureBeat; Publication Year: 2021. The following article summarizes another paper about the danger of accepting the future of artificial intelligence (AI) as inevitable and potential power dynamics that can emerge that…
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We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting

AI Development, Artificial Intelligence, Transparency

Author: Kevin Roose; Publisher: The New York Times; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how there are serious risks to artificial intelligence (AI) development that legislators and the public do not understand. Those who…
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Sexist and Biased? How Credit Firms Make Decisions

Algorithms, Apple, Artificial Intelligence, Credit Score, Gender Bias, Goldman Sachs, Historical Data

Author: Kevin Peachey; Publisher: BBC News; Publication Year: 2019. The following article describes how in November 2019, a tech entrepreneur reported that he was approved credit 20 times more on his Apple Card than his…
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Artificial Intelligence is Creating a New Colonial World Order

Artificial Intelligence, Colonialism, Global South, Spain

Author: Karen Hao; Publisher: MIT Technology Review; Publication Year: 2022. In the following article, Karen Hao writes the first story in a 5 part series on artificial intelligence (AI) colonialism. She lays the groundwork for…
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WiDS podcast Episode 28, Karen Hao, Covering AI and Ethics Washing in the Tech Industry

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics Washing, Facebook, Misinformation, Silicon Valley

Author: Margo Gerritsen, Karen Hao; Publisher: Women in Data Science Podcast; Publication Year: N/A. In the following podcast episode, the focus is on Karen Hao who wrote an influential article in MIT Technology Review describing…
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