Tag: Gender Bias

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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More Than One in Three Firms Burned by AI Bias

Ageism, AI Bias, Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition Systems, Fairness, Gender Bias, Government Regulation, Racial Bias

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…
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Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool that Showed Bias Against Women

Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Gender Bias, Hiring, Training Data

Author: Jeffrey Dastin; Publisher: Reuters; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses how being able to make the hiring process easier or less time-consuming is a goal for most major big companies. Some companies, like…
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AI can be Sexist and Racist — It’s Time to Make it Fair

Accuracy, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Bias, Ethnic Bias, Gender Bias, Training Data

Author: James Zou, Londa Schiebinger; Publisher: Nature; Publication Year: 2018. The following article discusses different sources of bias, how to recognize the bias, and what to do about it. They bring up that a major…
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Building Ethical Guardrails into AI-Driven Robotic Assistants

Accountability, Artificial Intelligence, Gender Bias, Racial Bias, Robotic Assistants, Transparency

Author: James Kobielus; Publisher: Transforming Data with Intelligence (TDWI); Publication Year: 2021. The following article focuses on why there are ethical boundaries needed when building robotic assistants in this article. Developers of the artificial intelligence…
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Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men – a Review

Data Bias, Gender Bias, Gender Norms, Gender Roles

Author: Karen Boyle; Publisher: The Conversation; Publication Year: 2019. The following article reviews the book “Invisible Women, Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men” by Caroline Criado Perez. The book reveals some truths…
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Lipstick on a Pig: Debiasing Methods Cover up Systematic Gender Biases in Word Embeddings But do not Remove Them

Debiasing, Gender Bias, Natural Language Processing Technology, Word Embeddings

Author: Hila Gonen, Yoav Goldberg; Publisher: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence; Publication Year: 2019. The following study talks about gender bias in word embeddings, an important component in Natural Language Processing. There have been debiasing…
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Truth in Pictures: What Google Image Searches Tell Us About Inequality at Work

Gender Bias, Google, Racial Bias, Representation, Search Engine

Author: Gretchen Hellman; Publisher: Diversity Employers; Publication Year: 2017. The following article speaks about the bias of search engines. If you were to look for images of a “professor” or “CEO” you would find images…
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When Good Algorithms Go Sexist: Why and How to Advance AI Gender Equity

Apple, Credit Score, Feminist Data Practices, Gender Bias, Underrepresented Communities

Author: Genevieve Smith, Ishita Rustagi; Publisher: Stanford Social Innovation Review; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses the effect of gender bias in data science. A very interesting example is the credit lines and credit…
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