Biased Algorithms

Bias Isn’t the Only Problem with Credit Scores—and No, AI Can’t Help

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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 start-ups are working to build fairer algorithms. The author, however, claims that building a fair algorithm is not enough because low-income and minority groups represent a very small…

Google Has a Striking History of Bias Against Black Girls

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Author: Safiya Noble; Publisher: TIME Magazine; Publication Year: 2018. The following article talks about how Google’s search algorithm is biased against the Black woman. It shows and talks about the author’s own identity as a black woman and she talks about how a simple search of black woman would result in pornography of Black girls on Google where as in fact a similar search of say white woman does not yield such…

Can We Protect AI from Our Biases?

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Author: Robin Hauser; Publisher: TED; Publication Year: N/A. In the following talk, Robin Hauser talks about unconscious bias in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. As part of producing her new movie about unconscious bias, she became interested in finding out whether it would be possible to create AI without bias. As she came to find out, it is oftentimes harder to create unbiased algorithms for multiple…

7 Short-Term AI Ethics Questions

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Author: Orlando Torres; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how data scientists must be reactive instead of proactive when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) tech dangers. He mentions 7 important topics in which we should create questions and be proactive with potential issues: 1). Biases in algorithms; 2). Transparency of algorithms; 3). Supremacy of algorithms; 4). Fake news and…