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A new facial recognition tool that infers your beauty, age, BMI, life expectancy, and gender from a photo exposes the risks of AI creep.
Automated hiring systems are paradoxical. Although often the stated reason for adopting them is to curtail human bias, they frequently end up exacerbating the biases they’re meant to correct.
A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws
Why. The EFF. Does anyone think. A computer can grade writing. Much less history.
Inioluwa Deborah Raji of the AI Now Institute is one of a growing number of AI developers trying to raise awareness of racial bias in tech.
Thousands protest in the UK after a formula replaced a test that influences college placement. It's led to broader scrutiny of automation and inequality.
Formal exams had to be canceled due to the pandemic.
Dismantling institutional racism needs to begin with empowering antiracist people.
Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics
Facebook chief AI scientist Yann LeCun got into a debate with Google AI ethics co-lead Timnit Gebru about bias. Here are some key lessons to be learned.
Twitter user Dan Hirschman posts another example of search results that are — let’s just say — questionable: This is what a racist algorithm looks like. (H/T @epopppp) pic.twitter…
How Michigan’s attempt to automate its unemployment system went horribly wrong
Names are shitty identifiers, part one billion
Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users. But its tech is also helping the government listen in.
The algorithm only recommended around 18% of black patients for follow-up care, versus 82% of white patients, even when both groups were similarly sick.
As we approach the end of the semester in our new and unexpected distance delivery mode, the question of assessment is, if it wasn’t already, moving to the forefront of our and our students’ minds.
Cheating is not a technological problem, but a social and pedagogical problem. Technology is often blamed for creating the conditions in which cheating proliferates and is then offered as the solution to the problem it created; both claims are false.