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Tag: algorithmic bias

Fixing algorithms isn’t going to fix society

May 6, 2023

in AI

algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence, bias, racism, sexism, social, society

I keep seeing articles reporting that AI is biased, and exhorting software developers and private companies to do more to ensure that algorithmic bias is stamped out. But I don’t see any of those people asking for human bias to be stamped out. Which is weird, because human bias is the ultimate cause of algorithmic…
Don’t blame biased algorithms for outcomes you don’t like.

Nov 18, 2019

in AI

algorithmic bias, algorithmic determinism, bias, cognitive bias, machine learning

“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…
MIT researchers show how to detect and address AI bias without loss in accuracy

Nov 29, 2018

in AI

algorithmic bias, bias, human bias, machine learning

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…