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Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification – MIT Media Lab Recent studies demonstrate that machine learning algorithms can discriminate based on classes like race and gender. In […]

Resume screening is the first hurdle applicants typically face when they apply for a job. Despite the many empirical studies showing bias at the resume‐screening stage, fairness at this funnelling […]

High definition research into employee attitudes Comprehensive report on worker sentiment about the general outlook for the workplace and the long-term prospects for the jobs they’re holding. High levels of […]

After years of growing income inequality, concerns about technology-driven displacement of jobs, and rising societal discord globally, the combined health and economic shocks of 2020 have put economies into freefall, […]

This white paper takes a deeper dive into the data and algorithm used to underestimate the pass rate of students of certain nationalities, looking at how data and modelling can […]

A case study from ResearchGate We present a project that aims to generate images that depict accurate, vivid, and personalized outcomes of climate change using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks (CycleGANs). Case […]

A study on the discriminatory impact of algorithms in pre-trial bail decisions.

Racial disparities in automated speech recognition Automated speech recognition (ASR) systems are now used in a variety of applications to convert spoken language to text, from virtual assistants, to closed […]

Facial recognition is not the next generation of CCTV. Whilst CCTV takes pictures, facial recognition takes measurements. Measurements of the distance between your eyes, the length of your nose, the […]

A research paper about race and AI chatbots Why is it so hard for AI chatbots to talk about race? By researching databases, natural language processing, and machine learning in […]

A paper on racial bias in hate speech Technologies for abusive language detection are being developed and applied with little consideration of their potential biases. We examine racial bias in […]

Risk of racial bias in hate speech detection This research paper investigates how insensitivity to differences in dialect can lead to racial bias in automatic hate speech detection models, potentially […]