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Experts say medical images like X-Rays and CT scans allow algorithms to determine a patient's race—and warn it could lead to bias and discrimination.
Some have been used in hospitals, despite not being properly tested. But the pandemic could help make medical AI better.
The biggest-ever study of real people’s mortgage data shows that predictive tools used to approve or reject loans are less accurate for minorities.
A similar audit of LinkedIn found ads were shown to women equally as often
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Some of our disagreements about inequality come from people's failure to notice it.
Library staff members have been fighting for racial justice for years. This training, they say, was just the latest misstep.
"We are trying to achieve pay equity across all genders and races in the world in our lifetime."
As racial justice protests swept across the world last summer, companies were having their own internal racial reckonings – but did this translate into results?
Data for Black Lives is launching #NoMoreDataWeapons. No more investing in Data Weapons, No more building new Data Weapons, No more disguising Data Weapons as legitimate and neutral.
The long read: Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hands
A growing industry wants to scrutinize the algorithms that govern our lives—but it needs teeth
Unlike many other industrial sectors, the tech platforms have emerged from the pandemic stronger and are already positioning themselves as indispensable to public health. It’s time to hold them, and all of us, to account for it
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.
A genealogy of one of the most important datasets in AI.
Tech creators and journalists ignore the insights and experiences of Black women—and fail to see the harm of their "innovations."
Critics say ExamSoft discriminates against students of color.
Machine learning has a problem with data mismanagement and a culture where anything goes, according to a recent AI research survey.