bias
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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 and 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…
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Decolonising knowledge and KM
The English language dominates global conservation science – which leaves 1 in 3 research papers virtually ignored
To have the best chance of halting Earth’s extinction crisis, we must harness the knowledge of people from around the…
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2020’s top 100 journal articles
Tracking historical changes in trustworthiness using machine learning analyses of facial cues in paintings [Top 100 research & commentary of 2020]
A strongly criticised study exposes the risks and dangers of algorithmic biases, and highlights the need to critically appraise all…
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2020’s top 100 journal articles
RETRACTED ARTICLE: The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance [Top 100 research & commentary of 2020]
A retracted scientific collaboration mentoring study highlights the importance of critically appraising all scientific research evidence before use.
