|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Tech companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to improve conditions for female employees. Here’s why not much has changed—and what might actually work.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
An analysis of premiums and payouts in California, Illinois, Texas and Missouri shows that some major insurers charge minority neighborhoods as much as 30 percent more than other areas with similar accident costs.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Amazon, Verizon, UPS and Facebook among others were found to be limiting job ads to limited age groups.
|| Diversity Equity and Inclusion || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Report || Short (5 min or less)
This paper seeks to study how computerized decision-making techniques compare to one another, and what accounts for the differences.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
U of Texas at Austin has stopped using a machine-learning system to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. in computer science. Critics say the system exacerbates existing inequality in the field.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A fight over replacing bail with "risk assessment tools" has split reform advocates. Some fear the change will worsen anti-Black discrimination.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
State-of-the-art image-classifying AI models trained on ImageNet, a popular (but problematic) dataset containing photos scraped from the internet, automatically learn humanlike biases about race, gender, weight, and more according to new research from scientists at Carnegie Me
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Accusations of unfairness over this year's A-level results in England have focused on an "algorithm" for deciding results of exams cancelled by the pandemic.