racial bias
Black Teens Say Teacher Told Them to Clean Cotton to ‘Teach Us How Slaves Were’
Their mother says an administrator offered to “segregate” the girls.
Uber Is Getting Sued Over Its Allegedly Racist Ratings System
A former Uber driver is suing the company for suspending drivers based on its ratings system, which the lawsuit alleges allows racism to run rampant.
Detroit Extends Contract of Facial Recognition Program That Doesn’t Work
The city’s own police chief admits the technology misidentifies 96 percent of time and yet the city voted to extend its use.
An AI Paper Published in a Major Journal Dabbles in Phrenology
A paper in 'Nature' that claimed to evaluate 'trustworthiness' based on physical features has sparked major backlash.
Twitter’s AI Revealed to Have Racial Bias After a Viral Photo Experiment
A series of tweets showed the AI choosing to display the photo of a white man over a Black man.
Amazon Spent $24,000 To Kill Portland's Facial Recognition Ban
The legislation would be the strongest ban on the technology in the US, blocking both government and commercial use.
This Image of a White Barack Obama Is AI's Racial Bias Problem In a Nutshell
The photo, which was upsampled from a pixelated image of the former president, depicted him as a white man and was created through artificial intelligence—bringing up the question of bias in machine learning generative models.
Instead of Highlighting Diverse Authors, This Publisher Just Made Peter Pan Black
A lazy attempt to wipe away racial bias with AI backfired spectacularly, as these things tend to go.
Even The Government Admits Facial Recognition Is Racially Biased
A new federal study confirms the widely-adopted tech is fundamentally biased. It’s time to ban it.
‘Significant Racial Bias’ Found in National Healthcare Algorithm Affecting Millions of People
A series of studies argue that by focusing on costs as a proxy for health, risk algorithms are ignoring the racial inequalities in healthcare access.
Google Is Investigating Why it Trained Facial Recognition on ‘Dark Skinned’ Homeless People
Former workers reveal "questionable and misleading methods" used to obtain facial scans.
Racial Bias in AI Isn’t Getting Better and Neither Are Researchers’ Excuses
Another machine learning algorithm has failed to work for people of color. What is it going to take for this to stop?