bias
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Opinion
Friday essay: shaping history – why I spent ten years studying one Wikipedia article
Wikipedia supposedly reflects “common knowledge” and “collective memory”. But does it?
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Brain power
Accelerating and celebrating the melting icebergs of microaggression
Once you become aware of microaggressions it will open eyes and allow everyone to play their part more actively in…
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Brain power
Health AI systems struggle to replicate test results in real life
When datasets used to train algorithms are used “off label” in unintended ways, biases can be introduced that compromise the…
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Brain power
How can we rid biases from facial recognition?
Four primary judgments we make when we first encounter someone underlie the biases we hold when forming impressions of others…
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Book reviews and releases
Bias be gone! Can our unconscious prejudices be overcome?
The strengths and limitations of the new book, The End of Bias: How We Change Our Minds.
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Brain power
How to remove biases from algorithms
The "train then mask" approach ensures that sensitive data is included when training algorithms, but then masked when actually being…
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Brain power
The risks involved in using AI to make human decisions
AI can be very helpful, but we can’t think of technology as separate from the issues going on in society.
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Decolonising knowledge & KM
One virus, two countries: how the misuse of science compounded South Africa’s COVID crisis
'First world' knowledge biases prevented South Africa from mobilising the energies and talents of most of its people against COVID-19.
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Brain power
AI-based credit risk tools can be ruined by noisy data
AI is increasingly being used to produce credit risk scores, but research highlights how bad data can cause such systems…
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Brain power
Artificial intelligence is now part of our everyday lives – and its growing power is a double-edged sword
A major new report on the state of artificial intelligence (AI) identifies where AI is at today, and the promise…
