Introduction Prevalence of A.I. system is not a new thing anymore from product, movie recommendation to taxi-hailing services it is present everywhere. As time is progressing further their adoption, popularity is increasing as well. Fairness is the absence of any prejudice or…
Musician Grimes is ready to drop some knowledge: AI is the pathway to the workers’ utopia. The big picture: Grimes’ vision has a name — Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC) — and it kind of makes sense, provided you forget about the meaning…
If you take a step back, you would see that a huge driver for this is news organizations that favor certain sides of the political spectrum. This in turn is reflected in their reporting. Certain facts may completely be omitted and opinionated…
AI has the potential to change the world in many amazing ways. But like every revolution, it requires fuel. It’s long been said that “data is the oil of the information age,” and that’s certainly true in many ways. But while data…
In the expanding universe of AI Ethics discourse, the three most prominent concepts discussed are bias, discrimination, and privacy. Bias is the pre-condition that leads to discrimination, so we can say there are just two. This article is about bias and deliberate,…
Human history has an unfortunate record of discrimination and biases against each other that follow us from ancient times. A conscious effort towards developing inclusive and equal social systems is a necessity. In the increasingly automated world, where computers interact with humans,…
Following Red Dress Day on May 5, a day aimed to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG), Indigenous activists and supporters of the campaign found posts about MMIWG had disappeared from their Instagram accounts. In response, Instagram released a…
Online retail giant Amazon recently deleted the N-word from a product description of a black-coloured action figure and admitted to CBC News its safeguards failed to screen out the racist term. The multibillion-dollar firm’s gatekeeping also failed to stop the same word…
To ensure the safe and effective use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, researchers and developers will need to work to eliminate bias in these tools, according to a perspective paper by Stanford University researchers. As artificial intelligence tools grow more prevalent in the medical…
Bias is a part of our human nature. We each have preferences, likes and dislikes, and different points of view. It’s no surprise, then, that these preferences, or biases, are found in data. If left unchecked, biased data can create skewed or…
