Tag: Stereotypes
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Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
Author: Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang, James Zou, et al.; Publisher: Arxiv; Publication Year: 2016. The following article discusses how machine learning applied blindly runs the risk of amplifying biases in data. Word embedding, a popular…
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Fighting the Gender Stereotypes That Warp Biomedical Research
Author: JoAnna Klein; Publisher: The New York Times; Publication Year: 2019. The following article discusses how the stereotypes and bias in medical research (and more generally) resulted in mainly male animals being used in biomedical…
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Handle with Care: Lessons for Data Science from Black Female Scholars
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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On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Standpoints
Author: Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein Publisher: MIT Press Publication Year: 2020 Summary: The following book chapter from “Data Feminism” can be beautifully summed up by words from Black feminist sociologist Patricia Hill Collins: “Neither…
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Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes
Artificial Intelligence, Black Issues, Capitol Music Group, Digital Blackface, FN Meka, Incarceration, Police Brutality, Robot Rapper, StereotypesAuthor: Alex Castro; Publisher: The New York Times; Publication Year: 2022. The following news article reports recent news regarding an artificial intelligence (AI) “robot rapper” named FN Meka. This rapper’s lyrics, chords, melody, tempo, and…