The news: An open letter from a growing coalition of AI researchers is calling out scientific publisher Springer Nature for a conference paper it reportedly planned to include in its forthcoming book Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. The paper, titled “A Deep Neural Network…

With increasing evidence that some outputs of Natural Language Processing (NLP)-based machine learning models may propagate societal biases, we investigate mitigating gender bias in the occupation classification of job biographies. Through the novel use of a graph convolutional network, we find gender…

The AI bias trouble starts — but doesn’t end — with definition. “Bias” is an overloaded term which means remarkably different things in different contexts. Here are just a few definitions of bias for your perusal. In statistics: Bias is the difference between the expected…

The murder of George Floyd was shocking, but we know that his death was not unique. Too many Black lives have been stolen from their families and communities as a result of historical racism. There are deep and numerous threads woven into…

The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) has been granted the right to pursue a judicial review of the Home Office’s artificial intelligence system that it uses to filter and prioritise UK visa applications.  JCWI seek to ‘turn off’ the…

“Sorry, I don’t know that one.” Alexa, Cortana, even the automated announcements on public transport – they all have one thing in common: a female voice or female avatar. I have been working on dialogue systems since the first generation of projects…