Stories Tagged as
Bias
Nearly 1 in 4 Black borrowers are denied a mortgage
Jun 19, 2024
Comparatively, 1 in 10 white borrowers are turned away.
New NYC law restricts hiring based on artificial intelligence
Dec 10, 2021
Employers won’t be allowed to use AI to screen job candidates unless the tech has gone through an audit to check for bias.
“Wherever you look at human judgements, you are likely to find noise”
May 18, 2021
In a new book, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman looks at a problem with human judgement.
Perhaps Congress took "The Wizard of Oz" a bit too seriously
by
Phoebe Unterman
and Kai Ryssdal
Dec 11, 2018
At the House Judiciary Committee hearing with Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, Rep. Zoe Lofgren from California had to ask for clarification that Google’s Search algorithm is not a “little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what [Google is] going to show.” She wasn’t the only one that was confused by how Google works. On […]
How women landed the invisible work of social media labor
Jun 1, 2018
It can start with the language used in job descriptions.
What's the return on investment for bias trainings?
May 25, 2018
We look into how bias trainings work and how companies measure their effectiveness.
Why facial recognition software has trouble recognizing people of color
by
Molly Wood
, Stephanie Hughes
and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 13, 2018
"Data reflects our history, and our history has been very biased to date," MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini says.
For public good, not for profit.
Companies use ads to pitch issues over products
Aug 8, 2017
Tackling social problems in campaigns can be tricky. Just ask Pepsi.
Full interview: ProPublica's Julia Angwin on biased sentencing algorithms
by
Ben Johnson
May 25, 2016
Looking at the racial bias of algorithms.