Blindly eliminating biases from AI systems can have unintended consequences.
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Creating bias-free AI systems is easier said than done. A computer scientist explains how controlling bias could lead to fairer AI.
Public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane at her impeachment hearing in Cape Town.
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Past controversies and their impacts show how important it is to make the right appointment to the position.
Do men post less often on social media because they fear being judged as effeminate?
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New research shows that frequent posters appear needy, which pushes up against the expectation that ‘real men’ be stoic and self-sufficient.
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Regardless of the input, AI image generators will have a tendency to return certain kinds of results. This is where the potential for bias arises.
Could this be what politicians have in mind when they invoke the “hardworking family”?
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A survey of nearly 900 politicians in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Canada reveals that they systematically overestimate their electorate’s conservatism on a range of issues.
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Unlike a human editor, AI cannot explain their decisions or reasoning in a meaningful way. This can be a problem in a field where accountability and transparency are important.
Under 10% of political donations from academic scholars go to Republican causes.
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Public data about individual donors’ political contributions supports the perception that American academia leans left.
In the absence of legal guidelines, companies need to establish internal processes for responsible use of AI.
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Companies that want to avoid the harms of AI, such as bias or privacy violations, lack clear-cut guidelines on how to act responsibly. That makes internal management and decision-making critical.
Insights from artificial intelligence will influence promotions and detect bias in the workplace.
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Software you may already use every day can track your productivity for your employer.
Effects of biases can snowball over time.
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Teachers judged the same math work differently based on whether the work was associated with male or female names.
Napoleon could have learned from the past.
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We can now store information outside of our brains, and use computers to retrieve it. That ought to make learning and remembering easy, right?
Literary theory can help us understand why hiring managers prioritize some types of job experience over others.
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Understanding how hiring managers evaluate candidates can help us understand current hiring prejudices and, hopefully, help us overcome them.
Misunderstanding can play a role in people’s dislike of others who have different beliefs.
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People tend not to think that their own emotions could simply be wrong. But research shows that people excessively dislike others who disagree with them.
Human evolution is typically depicted with a progressive whitening of the skin, despite a lack of evidence to support it.
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From Aristotle to Darwin, inaccurate and biased narratives in science not only reproduce these biases in future generations but also perpetuate the discrimination they are used to justify.
Expectations of prejudice and discrimination can lead LGBTQ+ patients to avoid seeking health care.
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Though some LGBTQ+ health care providers may try to separate their personal and professional identities, the prejudice they experience highlights their queerness in the clinic.
Women face much higher levels of discrimination in hiring and promotions compared to male medical professionals.
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After decades of effort to reduce discrimination in the workplace, a cultural change may be happening that will enable people to move past their unconscious biases.
Heat pump sales in the UK are lagging behind the rest of Europe.
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The UK is next to last in Europe for heat pump sales – psychologists explain why take up is so low.
Medical research is one of the keys in providing health care.
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The lack of visibility by Black researchers and physicians in scientific literature perpetuates systemic racism in medicine.
Women who are seen as assertive can often be negatively labelled at work.
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Labels that reflect our gender, racial or age-specific biases can often undermine others.
Only about 1 in 3 LGBTQ victims of violent hate crimes seek professional help for mental health issues that emerge after an attack.
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For the first time, researchers have been able to produce estimates of the rate of hate crimes against LGBTQ people.