Tag: Racial Bias
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The Apple Card Didn’t ‘See’ Gender—and That’s the Problem
Author: Will Knight; Publisher: Wired; Publication Year: 2019. The following article touches on the idea of bias “proxies,” like address information as a proxy for race. It talks about how the Apple Card was offering…
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Discriminating Data
Author: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; Publisher: MIT Press; Publication Year: 2021. The following book discusses the innate bias that comes from dirty data and how removing indicators of race will not remove bias from artificial…
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A New Study Finds a Potential Risk with Self-Driving Cars: Failure to Detect Dark-Skinned Pedestrians
Author: Sigal Samuel; Publisher: Vox; Publication Year: 2019. The following article talks about the self-driving Uber cars. It points to a very important ethical issue in data science i.e. the issue that self-driving Uber cars…
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A Beauty Contest was Judged by AI and the Robots Didn’t like Dark Skin
Artificial Intelligence, Beauty.AI, Human Beauty, Microsoft, Racial Bias, Representation in Training Datasets, Training Data, Youth LaboratoriesAuthor: Sam Levin; Publisher: The Guardian; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses how in 2016, the first artificial intelligence (AI) judged beauty contest was conducted. The objective factors included facial symmetry and wrinkles. Beauty.AI,…
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Deepen Racial and Economic Inequities
Author: Olga Akselrod; Publisher: ACLU; Publication Year: 2021. The following article presents a direct call to action to law makers to increase legislation to prevent against bias and discrimination in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. The…
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Europeans Can’t Talk About Racist AI Systems. They Lack the Words.
Author: Nicolas Kayser-Bril; Publisher: AlgorithmWatch; Publication Year: N/A. The following article provides an interesting international perspective based on the language use and history of Europe. An economic powerhouse in the first world, not being able…