Bias is an inclination of temperament outlook to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally valid) alternatives in reference to objects, people, or groups. Anything biased generally is one-sided and therefore lacks a neutral point of view. Bias can come in many forms and is often considered to be synonymous with prejudice or bigotry.
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How cognitive biases can help (and hurt) your business
Did you know Nir Eyal, the productivity expert who helped us with this piece, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Check out ...
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Google limits election-related search suggestions to avoid bias claims
Big tech companies have faced no shortage of scrutiny on their influence in politics, especially since 2016 elections. One ...
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Here are the biased algorithms the UK government uses to make high-level decisions
The recent use of an algorithm to calculate the graduating grades of secondary school students in England provoked so much ...
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Google says it's going to sell ethics advice to AI companies
Google's working on a service that would provide ethics consulting for companies building AI solutions. According to a ...
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UK ditches visa algorithm accused of creating ‘speedy boarding for white people'
The British government is scrapping a controversial algorithm used in visa applications that campaigners say discriminated ...
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How YouTube’s bias algorithm hurts those looking for information on health
YouTube hosts millions of videos related to health care. The Health Information National Trends Survey reports that 75% ...
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Stop calling it bias. AI is racist
Robert Williams was wrongfully arrested earlier this year in Detroit, Michigan on suspicion of stealing five watches from ...
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Instagram is inspecting its algorithm and policies for bias against black users
With the Black Lives Matter movement in focus, a lot of tech companies are reviewing their policies to make sure black voices ...
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Instagram's algorithm prioritizes 'scantily-clad' photos, study finds
Researchers from AlgorithmWatch and the European Data Journalism Network found that Instagram's algorithm makes sexy photos ...
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Microsoft's pause on facial recognition sales could speed up federal rules
Microsoft is banning police from using its facial recognition tech until federal regulation is in place, says the company's ...
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Sci-fi perpetuates a misogynistic view of AI -- Here's how we can fight it
Sci-fi has reinforced stereotypes in tech. Promoting marginalized voices will make the industry and its products more diverse ...
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How to detect unwanted bias in machine learning models
In 2016, the World Economic Forum claimed we are experiencing the fourth wave of the Industrial Revolution: automation using ...
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Scientists claim they can teach AI to judge 'right' from 'wrong'
Scientists claim they can "teach" an AI moral reasoning by training it to extract ideas of right and wrong from texts
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5 cognitive biases in data science — and how to avoid them
This article was originally published on Built In by Rahul Agarwal. You can read the original piece here. Follow them on Twitter. Recently, ...
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Democrats demand answers from Google on diversity training cuts
Democrats in the US House of Representatives have demanded answers from Google on reported cuts to its diversity and inclusion ...
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Google introduces improved AI to address gender bias in translate
For years, Google Translate showed gender bias by associating gender-neutral jobs to a particular gender: a doctor to male and ...
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LAPD ditches predictive policing program accused of racial bias
The Los Angeles Police Department is dumping a controversial predictive policing program that forecasts where property crimes ...
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Google's AutoML Zero lets the machines create algorithms to avoid human bias
It looks like Google's working on some major upgrades to its autonomous machine learning development language 'AutoML.' According ...
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How a nearly fatal accident changed the way I do business
One bad decision can change your life forever. And that decision will affect how you make choices – both personally and ...
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AI can’t predict a child’s future success, no matter how much data we give it
A trio of Princeton social scientists recently conducted a mass experiment with 160 research teams to see if any of them ...
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Dubious claims that AI outperforms doctors pose risk to 'millions of patients,' study finds
Many of the studies claiming AI outperforms doctors at interpreting medical images are poor quality and "arguably exaggerated," ...
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Speech recognition technology is racist, study finds
Study finds that speech recognition developed by Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and IBM make almost twice as many errors ...
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Why UX designers and users should be well aware of cognitive biases
The human brain is designed to make quick and effective decisions rather than stick to facts at all times. Instead of acting ...
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How designers could help free AI systems from gender and ethnicity biases
Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full 'Sprint' ...
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How to stop bias from creeping into the recruitment process, a diversity expert explains
Alison Wynn, a diversity researcher, hosted a TNW Answers session where she spoke about her research into gender equality ...
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For AI to succeed, ‘computer says no’ needs to die
Data scientists and enterprises need to make sure the factors used by AI to derive a decision are transparent to the people ...
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Why using AI to screen job applicants is almost always a bunch of crap
Millions of potential employees are subjected to artificial intelligence screenings during the hiring process every month. ...
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How the tech industry is failing people with disabilities and chronic illnesses
30 percent of people under the age of 65 have a chronic health condition. Despite this prevalence, people with chronic illnesses ...
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Researcher: Here are 5 things that scare me about AI
AI is being increasingly used to make important decisions. Many AI experts (including Jeff Dean, head of AI at Google, and Andrew ...
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Decade of Diversity: How tech failed to fix its gender disparity problem
A lack of diversity is a huge issue the tech industry faces, despite more women working in tech, female representation has ...
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How cognitive psychologists can improve crime scene forensic
When a jury decides the fate of a person, they do so based on the evidence presented to them in the courtroom. Evidence obtained ...
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How to stop AI from perpetuating harmful biases
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already re-configuring the world in conspicuous ways. Data drives our global digital ecosystem, ...
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[Best of 2019] Why the criminal justice system should abandon algorithms
It's time that US courts stopped relying on biased algorithms to excuse the inherent bias embedded within the criminal justice ...
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Why women didn't win any science Nobels this year
That’s a return to business as usual, after biochemical engineer Frances Arnold won in 2018, for chemistry, and Donna Strickland ...
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Study: Facial recognition AI's alright, if you're cisgender and white
I'm a cisgender white male. I can unlock my phone, sign into my bank account, and breeze through border patrol check points ...
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UK passport program uses AI to create a virtual speed-line for white people
The lighter your skin, the better AI-powered facial recognition systems work for you. The UK Home Office knows this, because ...
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Disney is using AI to correct gender bias in its movies
Disney has now taken a step further to improve its representation by turning to AI, using “GD-IQ” — a tool that reviews ...
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Google exploited homeless black people to develop the Pixel 4's facial recognition AI
The US city of Atlanta, Georgia alleged last week that contractors working on behalf of Google used confusing, aggressive ...
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Here's how science fiction could save us from bad technology
The short film "Slaughterbots" depicts a near future in which swarms of micro drones assassinate thousands of people for ...
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This game shows you how bots and trolls spread fake news on social media
Troll Factory taps into the power of gamification to bring about awareness and "illustrate how fake news, emotive content ...
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This Chrome plugin removes search bias to give women the visibility they deserve
A new Google Chrome plugin S.H.E. — Search, Human, Equalizer — transforms the way we search by removing bias and putting ...
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How 'The Equal Edit' campaign is improving gender equality in Swedish history on Wikipedia
“The Equal Edit,” launched by the Wikimedia Foundation, recently partnered with Historiskan, the first journal in Sweden ...
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Project Veritas and 'whistle-blower' published bullshit 'data-leak' to dox Google employees
Project Veritas, a non-profit conspiracy theory outlet, today dropped the 'bombshell' that it'd obtained hundreds of leaked ...
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Project Veritas releases 'internal documents' from Google and alleges anti-conservative bias
Former Google employee Zachary Vorhies has released nearly 1,000 documents which he says is evidence of the search giant's ...
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Study: Humans' racial biases extend even to black and white robots
A study called “Robots and Racism,” the human tendency to stereotype racial bias is expanding into the world of robotics. ...
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How big biased datasets make social inequalities worse
At almost every point in our day, we interact with digital technologies which collect our data. From the moment our smart ...
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This keyboard app spell-checks gender bias to challenge how we talk to girls
One project hoping to change perceptions around everyday, gender-biased language is the Samsung-backed app created by Plan ...
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AI model exposes Hollywood's bias against actresses
While the technology world and the US political institution grapple with how to deal with incumbent gender discrimination, ...
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This feminist chatbot challenges AI bias in voice assistants
Our future will be drived by AI so it's in everyone's interest to make sure it's not built on biases. AI chatbots are characterized ...
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Facebook board votes yae on Zuck, nay on Conservatives
A mutiny attempt today by a coalition of anti-Zuckerberg Facebook shareholder groups resulted in a resounding defeat as the ...
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This game reveals the hidden racial bias of dating app algorithms
It should be no surprise that racial bias factors into swiping matches on dating apps — but algorithms used by these apps ...
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Report: Female-sounding voice assistants fuel gender bias
AI-powered voice assistants from Google, Amazon, Apple, and others could be perpetuating harmful gender biases, according ...
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How to remove hiring bias through gamification
Gamification is getting ready to save us from that awkward pause after a recruiter sits back and says, “So tell me about ...
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Here are the 7 requirements for building ethical AI, according to the EU commission
In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligence–powered recruiting tool after it discovered the system ...
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How AI can help close the gender pay gap and eliminate bias
We’ve learned how to build self-driving cars and smartphones but somehow still didn't figure out how to pay men and women ...
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Women in AI need better allies. Here’s how we can all help
Lin Classon, Director of Public Cloud Product at managed cloud provider Ensono and former Googler, has spent her entire career ...
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Study: Women founders face challenges, but investor bias is rare
It's recently been confirmed that female-led startup companies get just 10 percent of venture capital investment. And according ...
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This app exposes which cryptocurrency a user is most likely to shill on Twitter
Coinflict of Interest will tell you the odds a particular Twitter user showing will show biases towards Bitcoin, Ethereum, ...
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AIs are being trained on racist data – and it’s starting to show
Machine learning algorithms process vast quantities of data and spot correlations, trends and anomalies, at levels far beyond ...
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Predictive policing is a scam that perpetuates systemic bias
Predictive policing exacerbates inherent systemic bias, covers up unlawful policing, and perpetuates misinformation. It's ...
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Here's why icons are sexist
Icons, which may seem like a small part of the digital landscape, reveal larger issues of unconscious bias in tech ...
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Biased algorithms: here’s a more radical approach to creating fairness
Our lives are increasingly affected by algorithms. People may be denied loans, jobs, insurance policies, or even parole on ...
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Reddit's r/changemyview is a template for how all online discussion should be
The threads start as they would anywhere else online: a contentious topic, the type that adds fuel to debate before engulfing ...
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The West’s unconscious bias against tech in Afrika limits innovation
January 2017 was special in many ways; important to note, it was the first time I ever boarded an airplane, but also it was ...
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Trump's media bias poll might be the most biased thing I've read in 2019
President Trump continues to fire shots at the press, claiming biased coverage, misrepresented facts, and sometimes entirely ...
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Women were written out of science history – it’s time we put them back in
One reason women tend to be absent from narratives of science is because it’s not as easy to find female scientists on ...
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5 female entrepreneurs on how to perfect a pitch
With only two percent of all US venture capital going to female founders in 2017, saying women have it tough when pitching ...
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Facebook's former PR firm seeded fake stories about bias at Apple News
Facebook's recently-fired PR firm allegedly floated a story to journalists that Apple News was biased against Republicans. ...
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Our lack of interest in data ethics will come back to haunt us
When was the last time you saw a creepy ad on Facebook, which seemed to know about a product you were discussing with a coworker? ...
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4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Bias is an overloaded word. It has multiple meanings, from mathematics to sewing to machine learning, and as a result it’s ...
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4 human-caused biases we need to fix for machine learning
Bias is an overused term in our language and has many different meanings from mathematics to sewing to machine learning -- ...
