Tag: Racial Bias

Who Will Establish Metaverse Ethics?

Facial Recognition Systems, Governance Models, Inequality, Metaverse, Predictive Policing, Racial Bias, Virtual Reality

Author: Josh Entsminger, Mark Esposito, Terence Tse; Publisher: Project Syndicate; Publication Year: 2022. The following article discusses how the “metaverse” is a term describing a dystopian society characterized by the immersion of virtual reality into…
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Ethical Hurdles to Combating Racially Biased Police Algorithms

Ethical Datasets, Policing, Predictive Policing, Racial Bias

Author: Jonathan Hofer; Publisher: Medium; Publication Year: 2020. The following article focuses on Cincinnati but is applicable nationwide. Their biased policing data is feeding into creating a biased predictive model. A case of “garbage in,…
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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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Racist Data? Human Bias is Infecting AI Development

Biased Data, COMPAS Program, Racial Bias, Unchecked Bias

Author: John Murray; Publisher: The Guardian; Publication Year: 2019. The following article gives several real-life examples of times when unchecked bias had serious consequences. For example, unchecked bias in the COMPAS program caused Black defendants…
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Critical Questions for Facial Recognition Technologies in Higher Education: A Handbook for Stakeholders and Decision-Makers

COVID-19, Facial Recognition Systems, Higher Education, Policing, Racial Bias, Surveillance

Author: Jillian Kwong, Stefanie Demetriades, Ali Rachel Pearl, Noy Thrupkaew, Jef Pearlman, Colin Maclay; Publisher: MASTS “Mobilizing Controversy” Working Group; Publication Year: 2021. The following resource provides insight into what facial recognition is and how…
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Five Ethical Challenges Facing Data-Driven Policing

Accountability, Data-Driven Policing, Policing, Racial Bias, Transparency

Author: Jeremy Davis, Duncan Purves, Juan Gilbert, Schuyler Sturm; Publisher: AI and Ethics; Publication Year: 2022. The following paper lists out 5 challenges with “data-driven policing” which has become more common all across the U.S.…
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Bias in Speech Recognition

Racial Bias, Speech Recognition Algorithms, Underrepresented Datasets

Author: Jamie Brandon; Publisher: Springer Link; Publication Year: 2020. The following article discusses how speech recognition algorithms are less effective when it comes to Black people. An algorithm was given a matched subset of identical…
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What Do We Do About the Biases in AI?

Algorithms, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Bias Mitigation, Explainability, Fairness, Human Bias, Racial Bias, Transparency

Author: James Manyika, Jake Silberg, Brittany Presten Publisher: Harvard Business Review Publication Year: 2019 Summary: The following article discusses how artificial intelligence (AI) can help identify and reduce the impact of human biases. But it…
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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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