Tag: algorithmic bias
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Comment: Teachers, the Robots Are Coming. But That’s Not a Bad Thing.
…that’s exactly why educators should not be putting their heads in the sand and hoping they never get replaced by an AI-powered robot. They need to play a big role in the development of these technologies so that whatever is produced is ethical and unbiased, improves student learning, and helps teachers spend more time inspiring…
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Don’t blame biased algorithms for outcomes you don’t like.
“What algorithms are doing is giving you a look in the mirror. They reflect the inequalities of our society.” Sandra Wachter, in The Week in Tech: Algorithmic Bias Is Bad. Uncovering It Is Good. Cordliffe, J. (2019). The New York Times. We can start by agreeing that algorithms are biased. Unfortunately, this is where most…
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MIT researchers show how to detect and address AI bias without loss in accuracy
The key…is often to get more data from underrepresented groups. For example…an AI model was twice as likely to label women as low-income and men as high-income. By increasing the representation of women in the dataset by a factor of 10, the number of inaccurate results was reduced by 40 percent. Source: MIT researchers show…