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Used by two-thirds of the world’s 100 biggest banks to aid lending decisions, credit scoring giant Fair Isaac Corp (FICO) and its artificial intelligence
The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem.
Students, professors, and education experts worry that that’s pushing Black students in particular out of math and science
It is a truth universally acknowledged—or at least a belief shared by many AI and machine learning researchers—that algorithms will be able to predict the behavior of individual human beings.
A growing industry wants to scrutinize the algorithms that govern our lives—but it needs teeth
Training algorithms on crime reports from victims rather than arrest data is said to make predictive tools less biased. It doesn’t look like it does.
Over the past several years, increased awareness of racial inequity in policing, combined with increased scrutiny of police technologies, have sparked concerns that new technologies may aggravate ineq...
In late November, the Tampa Bay Times reported that a predictive policing system aimed at identifying students who may be “potential criminals” incorporates data from student education records. Student privacy experts across the country agree that it likely runs afoul of federal law, and clear boundaries should be in place to prevent other locales from adopting similar systems. This predictive […]
‘Targeted:’ Sheriff Secretly Used School Records to Profile Students - Education Writers Association
Shool officials, parents had no knowledge of controversial program using grades, family histories to ID kids as potential criminals.|(EWA Radio: Episode 257)
It makes a list based on records so sensitive, they’re protected by state and federal law.
A mesmerising, unaccountable kind of algorithm – machine learning – is blinding governments to the technology’s often disastrous flaws
The latest episode of Westworld had a huge reveal about the real world outside of the parks, one that embodies the show’s latest motto that “free will is not free.” The whole thing might seem far-fetched, like human robots, but it’s actually terrifying once you realize predictive algorithms are already here...and have…
In a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers conclude that AI is a poor predictor of social outcomes like job loss.
Faced with an ever-shrinking pool of potential applicants, admissions officials are increasingly turning to tracking software to hit enrollment targets.
It won’t end employment discrimination. In fact, it could make it worse.