As the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, cardiovascular disease is prevalent across all populations. Artificial intelligence (AI) is providing opportunities to transform cardiovascular medicine. Medical report which examines the potential of Artificial Intelligence in cardiovascular medicine; it could hugely benefit patient diagnosis and treatment of what is the leading cause of morbidity and […]
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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 new bank account applications, block payments and credit cards, deny loans, and other vital financial services and products to qualified customers because of how their […]
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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 systemic change must happen for technology to be support equity.
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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 bias against ethnic minorities within financial services – the “new danger of ‘bias in, bias out’”.
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Today in the United States, African Americans continue to suffer from financial exclusion and predatory lending practices. Meanwhile the advent of machine learning in financial services offers both promise and peril as we strive to insulate artificial intelligence from our own biases baked into the historical data we need to train our algorithms. A detailed […]
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This video is an in depth panel discussion of the issues uncovered in the ‘Unmasking Facial Recognition’ report from WebRootsDemocracy. This report found that facial recognition technology use is likely to exacerbate racist outcomes in policing and revealed that London’s Metropolitan Police failed to carry out an Equality Impact Assessment before trialling the technology at […]
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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 recurring criminality. It uses case studies to demonstrate the racial bias prevalent in the software used to predict the ‘risk’ of further crimes. Even for […]
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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 tasks to activities requiring sophisticated judgment. Explains (from a US perspective) how the development of machine learning and algorithms has left financial services at risk […]
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UN Working Paper evidence base for conceptual framework of cyclic relationship between climate change and social inequality.
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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 use the system, including Hilton and Unilever, and more than a million job seekers have been analysed.
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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 recruitment systems cannot always be trusted to be effective in doing what the vendors say they do. The technical capabilities this type of software offers […]
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