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Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings
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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 framework for representing text data as vectors that has been used in many machine learning and natural language processing tasks,…
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Fighting the Gender Stereotypes That Warp Biomedical Research
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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 research. “She emphasized that sex is biological and gender is a social construct, and that using gender stereotypes to study…
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Handle with Care: Lessons for Data Science from Black Female Scholars
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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 to compress groups into a model or algorithm, this can create or perpetuate stereotypes. These reductions of individuals can have…
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On Rational, Scientific, Objective Viewpoints from Mythical, Imaginary, Impossible Standpoints
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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 ethics nor emotions are subordinated to reason.” We need to fight the patriarchal idea that emotions are bad, and that…
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Capitol Drops ‘Virtual Rapper’ FN Meka After Backlash Over Stereotypes
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Author: 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 sounds were derived and powered by AI. Despite being AI, he was signed to Capitol Music Group. This virtual artist…
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