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AI May Not Steal Your Job, but It Could Stop You Getting Hired
If you’ve worried that candidate-screening algorithms could be standing between you and your dream job, reading Hilke Schellmann’s The Algorithm…
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This Student Is Taking On ‘Biased’ Exam Software
Porcornie’s legal case is still ongoing. In December, the Dutch Institute of Human Rights issued an interim ruling saying it strongly…
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How 10 Skin Tones Will Reshape Google’s Approach to AI
For years, tech companies have relied on something called the Fitzpatrick scale to classify skin tones for their computer vision…
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DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See
Upon release of GPT-2 in February 2019, OpenAI adopted a staggered approach to the release of the largest form of…
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Twitter’s Photo Crop Algorithm Favors White Faces and Women
Last fall, Canadian student Colin Madland noticed that Twitter’s automatic cropping algorithm continually selected his face—not his darker-skinned colleague—from photos…
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FTC Says Racist Algorithms Could Get You In a Lot of Trouble
Photo: Bridget Bennett (Getty Images) Tentatively excellent news! The FTC has declared that it is serious about racist algorithms, and…
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