Tag: Discrimination

Artificial Intelligence Has a Problem With Gender and Racial Bias. Here’s How to Solve It

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Discrimination, Facial Analysis Software, Gender Bias, IBM, Microsoft, Racial Bias, Safe Face Pledge

Author: Joy Buolamwini; Publisher: Time Magazine; Publication Year: 2019. In the following article, notable data ethics advocate Joy Buolamwini shares her journey combating gender and racial bias in artificial intelligence (AI). After encountering biased facial…
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8 Types of Data Bias That Can Wreck Your Machine Learning Models

Biased Data, Discrimination, Machine Learning, Representation, Selection Bias, Systemic Bias, Underrepresented Datasets

Author: Joanna Kaminska; Publisher: Statice; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how it is important to know that while working with data there is a possibility that the data is biased; this is a…
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The Social Dilemma

Bigotry, Democracy, Discrimination, Mental Health, Racism, Social Media

Author: Jeff Orlowski; Publisher: Netflix; Publication Year: 2020. The following documentary provides an accessible and easily empathizable narrative for many of the consequences of social media. These “dilemmas” can be thought of as a mental…
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What Does it Mean to ‘Solve’ the Problem of Discrimination in Hiring? Social, Technical and Legal Perspectives from the UK on Automated Hiring Systems

Automated Hiring Systems, Bias Mitigation, Discrimination, Discriminatory Practices, Economic Inequality, Economic Justice, Hiring, Recruitment

Author: Javier Sánchez-Monedero, Lina Dencik, Lilian Edwards; Publisher: Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency; Publication Year: 2020. The following article describes how discriminatory practices in recruitment and hiring are a persistent problem that affects not…
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Discrimination by Proxy: How AI Uses Big Data to Discriminate

Artificial Intelligence, Data Collection, Discrimination, Ethical Algorithms, Proxy Discrimination

Author: Jacob Ladd; Publisher: Michigan Technology Law Review; Publication Year: N/A. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) systems may be able to get past current discrimination laws through “proxy discrimination.” Proxy discrimination is…
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Algorithmic Bias and Fairness: Crash Course AI #18

Algorithms, Discrimination, Efficiency, Facial Recognition Systems, Manipulated Data, Training Data, Unbalanced Data

Author: Jabril Ashe; Publisher: CrashCourse; Publication Year: 2019. The following video discusses how bias is a natural outcome as systems such as the human brain or a computer algorithm try to take shortcuts in order…
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Handle with Care: Lessons for Data Science from Black Female Scholars

Algorithms, Black Women, Data Collection, Defaults, Discrimination, Racism, Stereotypes

Author: Inioluwa Deborah Raji; Publisher: Patterns; Publication Year: 2020. The following article begins by confronting the idea that data science aims to reduce people to one dimensional ideas or stereotypes. When individuals or organizations attempt…
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Regulators Look at How “Big Data” May Contribute to Racial Bias in Insurance Rates

Discrimination, Insurance Rates

Author: Harriet Jones; Publisher: Marketplace; Publication Year: 2021. The following article describes how the pricing model has become more sophisticated over the years, the factors that decide the insurance rates have become more numerous and…
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Conscientious Classification: A Data Scientist’s Guide to Discrimination-Aware Classification

Discrimination, Discrimination Aware, Machine Learning

Author: d’Alessandro B, O’Neil C, LaGatta T.; Publisher: National Library of Medicine; Publication Year: 2017. The following article describes discrimination in the context of machine learning. The authors discuss how models can be biased even…
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