Dozens of software firms have sprung up to sell companies AI recruitment tools, which they promise will cut bias out of their clients’ hiring processes. In promotional materials and press releases, they argue that human recruiters are irredeemably biased while machines are objective, so companies…
The COVID-19 lockdown witnessed a spurt in incidences of online harassment and domestic violence against women as people are spending more time on the Internet. A Web Foundation survey highlights that 52% of young women and girls admitted that they have experienced…
In June, a crisis erupted in the artificial intelligence world. Conversation on Twitter exploded after a new tool for creating realistic, high-resolution images of people from pixelated photos showed its racial bias, turning a pixelated yet recognizable photo of former President Barack Obama…
As business, government and civil society make progress in addressing the human rights impacts and ethical questions arising from the use of artificial intelligence (AI), we believe that one supremely important constituency needs to participate much more actively: the “non-technology” companies integrating…
Yeshimabeit Milner was in high school the first time she saw kids she knew getting handcuffed and stuffed into police cars. It was February 29, 2008, and the principal of a nearby school in Miami, with a majority Haitian and African-American population,…
Before moving forward, with the advancements of AI, it has become imperative to acknowledge the biases ingrained in the AI models. The death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery in the USA has raised many brows towards existing biases in…
Social media users stumbled upon discrepancies on Sunday in how Twitter displays people with different skin tones, reopening a debate over whether computer programmes – particularly algorithms that “learn” – manifest or amplify real-world biases such as racism and sexism. The problem was…
Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are generally hungry for data, a trend which is accelerating. A new breed of AI approaches, called lifelong learning machines, are being designed to pull data continually and indefinitely. But this is already happening with other AI approaches,…
Is unconscious bias training the key to achieving workplace diversity and inclusion? The evidence suggests no. We all have unconscious or implicit biases and, according to the Kirwan Institute at Ohio State University, we typically hold implicit biases in favour of “our own ingroup”….
“Imagine a scenario in which self-driving cars fail to recognize people of color as people—and are thus more likely to hit them—because the computers were trained on data sets of photos in which such people were absent or underrepresented,” Joy Buolamwini,…
