Machine Bias
|| 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.
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The Death and Life of an Admissions Algorithm
|| 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.
California may replace cash bail with algorithms — but some worry that will be less fair
|| 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.
Researchers show that computer vision algorithms pretrained on ImageNet exhibit multiple, distressing biases
|| 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
Why did the A-level algorithm say no?
|| 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.
A-level and GCSE results: Pressure mounts on ministers to solve exam crisis
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
Pressure is mounting on ministers to let teacher-assessed grades stand in England to avoid a second wave of exams chaos hitting GCSE results this week.
California city bans predictive policing in U.S. first
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
As officials mull steps to tackle police brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.
An Algorithm that Grants Freedom, or Takes it Away
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight.
We Teach A.I. Systems Everything, Including Our Biases
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Medium (5-10 min)
Researchers say computer systems are learning from lots and lots of digitized books and news articles that could bake old attitudes into new technology.
Apple Card algorithm sparks gender bias allegations against Goldman Sachs
|| Algorithmic Bias || Media Article || Short (5 min or less)
David Heinemeier Hansson, a Danish entrepreneur and developer, said in tweets last week that his wife, Jamie Hansson, was denied a credit line increase for the Apple Card, despite having a higher credit score than him.