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Opinion | Child welfare agencies now use predictive analytics to make maltreatment cases more just, but they still unfairly target vulnerable populations.
A cautionary tutorial. Let's make a sentiment classifier!¶Sentiment analysis is a very frequently-implemented task in NLP, and it's no surprise. Recognizing whether people are expressing positi
Health-care artificial intelligence currently reflects the same racial and gender biases as the culture at large. Those prejudices are built into the data.
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Kids and teens increasingly rely on the internet to answer their mental-health questions.
Algorithms alone can’t meaningfully hold other algorithms accountable
Nature - Computer scientists must identify sources of bias, de-bias training data and develop artificial-intelligence algorithms that are robust to skews in the data.
The Chinese government plans to launch its Social Credit System in 2020. The aim? To judge the trustworthiness – or otherwise – of its 1.3 billion residents
The blind application of machine learning runs the risk of amplifying biases present in data. Such a danger is facing us with word embedding, a popular framework to represent text data as vectors...
A federal suit filed in December claimed older workers missed out on job opportunities because ads on Facebook targeted younger users. Now plaintiffs say Facebook’s tools and algorithm gave employers ways to intensify the effects of such targeting.
Homophily sucks.
Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer
This primer explores issues of algorithmic accountability, or the process of assigning responsibility for harm when algorithmic decision-making results in discriminatory and inequitable outcomes.
Mark Zuckerberg's promise to develop new AI tools to proactively address Facebook’s content problem allows the social network to abdicate responsibility for problems on its platform, and at scale.
Long after the training data has been deleted, the models can continue being improved and used to influence future voters.
Last updated: 07/05/2019 If you are a data scientist, a software developer, or in the social and human sciences with interest in digital humanities, then you’re no stranger to the ongoing discussio…
Searches starting ‘video of’ returned autocomplete suggestions of sexual videos and child abuse content