|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Bills HB1655 and SB 5527 aims at bias and other risks in the software that governments use for a range of decisions, from criminal sentencing to school placement.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Blog Post || Short (5 min or less)
Article warning about bias and how it can appear. Includes some illustrative examples, and information based on academic research on “algorithmic bias.”
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Arguments for using algorithms over human decision making, inlcuding research on level of accuracy and bias.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Algorithms are choosing who's the right fit to sell fast food or handle angry cable customers, by sizing up the human candidates' voices.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Algorithms are, in part, our opinions embedded in code. They reflect human biases and prejudices that lead to machine learning mistakes and misinterpretations.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Amazon.com Inc's AMZN.O machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Module || Short (5 min or less)
Evan Peck, Associate Professor at Bucknell University's teaching modules. His lesson plan connect ethics values to code for CS 1 students, and is centred around MIT's Moral Machine.
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University say nearly half of all accounts tweeting about the coronavirus appear to be bot accounts.
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Analysts are tracking false rumours about COVID-19 in hopes of curbing their spread.
|| Misinformation || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A team led by researchers at NYU Tandon discover that credibility indicators flagging spurious headlines can reduce intention to share non-true news, though demographics and political affiliation influence their effectiveness.