bias
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Artificial intelligence
Are chatbots widening the digital language gap?
Research finds that today’s AI chatbots are "faux polyglots" that mimic fluency across languages but fail to integrate perspectives.
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Brain power
Friday essay: how to have brave conversations in an age of loud moral certainty
Brave conversation is the refusal to let our shared reality be dictated by the loudest certainties and the most rigid…
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Quality of science & its communication
Scientific objectivity is a myth – cultural values and beliefs always influence science and the people who do it
Cultural ideas are inextricably entwined with the people who do science, the questions they ask, the assumptions they hold and…
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Decolonising knowledge & KM
Who gets to do science? A demand for English is hurting marginalised researchers
Everyone, no matter their background, should have an equal chance to work in science – but there are huge systemic…
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Brain power
How to avoid anchors and get truly independent advice
Advice-seeking works best when the advice-seeker’s own thoughts don’t 'anchor' the second opinion.
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Brain power
Unrest in Bangladesh is revealing the bias at the heart of Google’s search engine
Bangladesh is an illustrative case of the global problem of algorithmic bias, and highlights how search engines can be exploited.
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Artificial intelligence
Tech companies claim AI can recognise human emotions. But the science doesn’t stack up
Emotion recognition technologies endanger fundamental rights without proper justification.
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Artificial intelligence
AI for life: how sovereign Wiradyuri ways of knowing can transform technology for good
Technology doesn’t have to be harmful to indigenous people in the way AI currently is.
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Artificial intelligence
AI affects everyone – including Indigenous people. It’s time we have a say in how it’s built
Unless AI developers start involving Indigenous people, their claims about the technology benefiting all of humanity will continue to ring…
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Artificial intelligence
Madhumita Murgia: “AI can do harm when people don’t have a voice”
AI has genuinely life-changing potential, but we need to fix the human error, regulatory failure, and institutional bias in its…
