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Understanding AI bias in banking
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 data is treated or labeled.
Intelligence Unleashed – An argument for education
This research paper gives arguments for how AI can benefit our education system. It argues that AI can support teachers in giving children the best education whilst not taking away from the humanity of it. AI can be beneficial in aspects such as online tutoring, collaborative learning, and tackling achievement gaps. While it does not […]
Biases are being baked into artificial intelligence
Quick, concise Axios video that describes algorithmic bias, how and why human bias ends up in systems used for hiring and criminal justice among other things.
Racial Justice: Decode the Default (2020 Internet Health Report)
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.
Racist Robots? How AI bias may put financial firms at risk
Through a case study of mortgage applications, this article shows how bias might be introduced to AI systems by either bias within historical data, and/or inherent biases of AI programmers and employers. This article gives reasons why this presents a risk to businesses in terms of missing out on customers (refusing credit to creditworthy people) […]
AI risks replicating tech’s ethnic minority bias across business
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’”.
Black Loans Matter: fighting bias for AI fairness in lending
A detailed summary of research by Mark Weber, Mikhail Yurochkin, Sherif Botros and Vanio Markov, breaking down the lack of racial justice in the current US financial system which leads to the loss of the right to financial security, along with examination of solutions.
Measuring racial discrimination in algorithms
A study on the discriminatory impact of algorithms in pre-trial bail decisions.
Unmasking Facial Recognition | WebRoots Democracy Festival
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 […]
