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With so much buzz about AI at present, we invite blog post contributions which demystify key topics.

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Understanding AI bias in banking

As banks invest in AI solutions, they must also explore how AI bias impacts customers and understand the right and wrong ways to approach it. AI systems could unfairly decline […]

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Racial Justice: Decode the Default (2020 Internet Health Report)

Technology has never been colourblind. It’s time to abolish notions of “universal” users of software. This is an overview on racial justice in tech and in AI that considers how […]

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Racist Robots? How AI bias may put financial firms at risk

Artificial intelligence (AI) is making rapid inroads into many aspects of our financial lives. Algorithms are being deployed to identify fraud, make trading decisions, recommend banking products, and evaluate loan […]

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AI risks replicating tech’s ethnic minority bias across business

Diverse workforce essential to combat new danger of ‘bias in, bias out’ This short article looks at the link between the lack of diversity in the AI workforce and the […]

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Can make-up be an anti-surveillance tool?

As protests against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement continue in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, protection against mass surveillance has become top of […]

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Machine Bias – There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals and it’s biased against blacks

There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks. This is an article detailing a software which is used to predict the likelihood of […]

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Another arrest, and jail time, due to a bad facial recognition match

A New Jersey man was accused of shoplifting and trying to hit an officer with a car. He is the third known black man to be wrongfully arrested based on […]

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Algorithms and bias: What lenders need to know

Much of the software now revolutionising the financial services industry depends on algorithms that apply artificial intelligence (AI) – and increasingly, machine learning – to automate everything from simple, rote […]

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AI Perpetuating Human Bias in the Lending Space

AI was supposed to be the pinnacle of technological achievement — a chance to sit back and let the robots do the work. While it’s true AI completes complex tasks […]

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Google hired Timnit Gebru to be an outspoken critic of unethical AI. Then she was fired for it.

Timnit Gebru and Google Timnit Gebru is one of the most high-profile Black women in her field and a powerful voice in the new field of ethical AI, which seeks […]

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Face-scanning algorithm increasingly decides whether you deserve the job

HireVue claims it uses artificial intelligence to decide who’s best for a job. Outside experts call it “profoundly disturbing.” An article about HireVue’s “AI-driven assessments”. More than 100 employers now […]

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How to use AI hiring tools to reduce bias in recruiting

From machine learning tools that optimize job descriptions, to AI-powered psychological assessments of traits like fairness, here’s a look at the strengths – and pitfalls – of AI Commercial AI […]

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