|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
OMPAS, is used nationwide to decide whether defendants awaiting trial are too dangerous to be released on bail. In May, the investigative news organization ProPublica claimed that COMPAS is biased against black defendants.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Computers are inheriting gender bias implanted in language data sets—and not everyone thinks we should correct it.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
When we feed machines data that reflects our prejudices, they mimic them – from antisemitic chatbots to racially biased software. Does a horrifying future await people forced to live at the mercy of algorithms?
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Studies have shown that people are being treated differently online based on their race, actual or perceived. Websites have been found to use demographic data to raise or lower prices, show different advertisements, or steer people to different content.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
A discussion around how gender bias can be proliferated through AI machines.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Long (10+ min)
A case involving a biased computer program designed to assign sentences.
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
How the use of AI runs the risk of re-creating the insurance industry's inequities of the previous century.
|| 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 || Video || Medium (5-10 min)
MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem: the software didn't detect her face -- because the people who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it to identify a broad range of skin tones and facial structures.
|| 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.”