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AI Can Help Diagnose Some Illnesses—if Your Country Is Rich
October 12, 2020, by Will Knight
Algorithms for detecting eye diseases are mostly trained on patients in the US, ...
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The Whiteness of AI (Research Summary)
October 6, 2020, by MAIEI
Summary contributed by our researcher Victoria Heath (@victoria_heath7). She’s also a Communications Manager ...
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Biased Algorithms: Does Anybody Believe Twitter Is Racist?
October 4, 2020, by Enrique Dans, Senior Contributor
Some people realized that the algorithm Twitter uses to center pictures in tweets ...
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Twitter plans to change how image cropping works following concerns over racial bias
October 4, 2020, by Chaim Gartenberg
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter this week announced it would ...
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Your ‘Ethnicity Estimate’ Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
October 4, 2020, by Caitlin Harrington
DNA testing companies are rolling out algorithm updates, spotlighting the fickleness of ethnicity ...
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Dutch predictive policing tool ‘designed to ethnically profile,’ study finds
October 1, 2020, by Thomas Macaulay
A predictive policing system used in the Netherlands discriminates against Eastern Europeans and treats ...
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Twitter is investigating after anecdotal data suggested its picture-cropping tool favors white faces
September 22, 2020, by insider@insider.com (Isobel Asher Hamilton)
Twitter’s algorithm may have favored images of Mitch McConnell over Barack Obama. Alex ...
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Twitter investigating automated image previews over apparent algorithmic bias
September 22, 2020, by Chris Mills Rodrigo
Twitter is investigating the algorithm it uses to crop pictures for its mobile platform ...
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Twitter investigating possible racial bias in photo previews
September 21, 2020, by Colm Gorey
A number of Twitter users claimed to have stumbled on what appeared to ...
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EU must ‘proactively’ tackle AI discrimination, Jourová says
September 18, 2020, by Samuel Stolton
The EU should not ‘copy and paste’ everyday racial discrimination and bias into ...
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