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Even Artificial Intelligence can Acquire Biases Against Race and Gender
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Author: Matthew Hutson; Publisher: Science; Publication Year: 2017. The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) is just an extension of our existing culture. There is a common misconception that since artificial intelligence is automated and programmed, it is immune from biases because it makes decisions without the added factor of human emotions. However, these…
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The (Un)ethical Story of GPT-3: OpenAI’s Million Dollar Model
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Author: Matthew Burruss; Publisher: Matthew Burruss Blog; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how OpenAI’s GPT-3 has the potential to provide the world with truly transformative technology. Engaging in meaningful conversations about ways that this technology could be harmful is the most important hurdle. The model has been found to be biased towards certain…
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Gender and Representation Bias in GPT-3 Generated Stories
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Author: Li Lucy, David Bamman; Publisher: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Narrative Understanding; Publication Year: 2021. The following article talks about how GPT-3 is a commercially available natural language generator that has been shown to be useful in machine-in-the-loop creative writing. The stories it creates from simple prompts reinforce gender biases, such as men…
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Crunching the Numbers on Diversity in Data Science: Events & Resources to Foster Inclusion
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Author: Laramie Paxton; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article describes how data science is currently one of the most attractive jobs due to job availability and competitive salaries, but it has a diversity problem. Only 15% of data scientists are women and as data science professionals advance in their careers, the number of…
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How to Keep Human Bias Out of AI
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 negatively affect real people. Even in everyday technology, having female voice assistants, such as Siri or Alexa, perpetuates sexism. AI…
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Sexist and Biased? How Credit Firms Make Decisions
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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 wife, even though they have equal shares in their property and file joint tax returns, and she even had a…
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How to Tackle Microaggressions in the Digital Workplace
Author: Kaya Ismail; Publisher: Reworked; Publication Year: 2022. The following article describes how microaggressions are subtle acts of discrimination that are not overt. Especially gender-based or racial-based microaggressions, such as pathologizing cultural values or communication styles. The author gives tips for handling microaggressions and they include: 1). Noticing when they happen; 2). Tackling…
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The 2022 AI Index: AI’s Ethical Growing Pains
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Author: Katherine Miller Publisher: Stanford University, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Publication Year: 2022 Summary: The following article is concerned with language models. It briefly describes 3 ethical problems that are common with these models. First, they have a propensity to produce toxic output when given certain inputs. Second, they very rarely respond to prompts in a…
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Artificial Intelligence Has a Problem With Gender and Racial Bias. Here’s How to Solve It
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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 analysis software that could not recognize dark-skinned faces, the author was motivated to seek similar examples of discriminatory AI in…
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More Than One in Three Firms Burned by AI Bias
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Author: John P. Mello Jr.; Publisher: Tech News World; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how bias in artificial intelligence (AI) systems can result in significant losses for companies, according to a new survey by an enterprise AI company. Approximately 1 in 3 companies (36 percent) revealed they had suffered losses due to AI…
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