With slow progress on improving diversity in the field of AI, focus on education and peer network is needed.
PARIS (Reuters) -Elon Musk's X on Monday accused French prosecutors of launching a "politically-motivated criminal investigation" that threatens its users' free speech, denying all allegations against it and saying it would not cooperate with the probe.
Millions of South Africans lose out on welfare grants because of a flawed application system, including an automated means test.
PARIS (Reuters) - French prosecutors said on Friday they have opened an investigation into Elon Musk's X social media platform over alleged algorithmic bias.
Instagram's algorithm is designed to keep you coming back for more and more, but sometimes it can take you in the wrong direction.
As the saying goes, don't be fooled by appearances. And yet, artificial intelligence seems to have fallen into that trap.
For most of us, the word “algorithm” is fairly new to our vocabulary. But badly designed decision-making algorithms have a growing impact on our lives and can do a great deal of damage.
Twitter said on May 19 it was scrapping an automated image-cropping system after its review found bias in the algorithm controlling the function.
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Friday it will launch a competition for computer researchers and hackers to identify biases in its image-cropping algorithm, after a group of researchers previously found the algorithm tended to exclude Black people and men.
A wave of protests over law enforcement abuses has highlighted concerns over artificial intelligence programs like facial recognition which critics say may reinforce racial bias.
Canadian artist and academic hopes to demystify the novel technology topping the news of late
(Reuters) -Meta will start testing "Community Notes" in the U.S. from March 18 using technology developed by Elon Musk-owned X, the Facebook parent said on Thursday, two months after scrapping its fact-checking program amid pressure from conservatives.
Algorithms mimic the data they are given. If that data reflect humanity’s sexism, racism and oppressive tendencies, those biases will be baked into the algorithm’s predictions.
Washington D.C. bill targeting algorithmic discrimination hailed as potential model for wider crackdown on tenant-screening tools.
TikTok faces a claim that its algorithm steers more violent videos to minority subscribers than to White users in a lawsuit blaming the platform for the death of a 14-year-old African-American girl.
NEW YORK, April 12 (Xinhua) -- There is widespread agreement that the U.S. organ transplant system is racially inequitable, with Blacks three times as likely as Whites to suffer end-stage renal disease but much less likely to be put on the transplant wait list or to receive a kidney, reported The Washington Post early this week.
The study found searching for words like ‘CEO’ or ‘scientist’ often returns images of mostly men. Algorithms have been scrutinised across the world for their ability to reinforce cultural stereotypes.
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc, Kellogg Co and several big ad agencies on Monday pledged to counteract unwanted biases in the algorithms that power their online advertising.
Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and impeding emergency response efforts, a research group said July 22.
Twitter announcement a bug bounty to find biases in its system, amid growing concerns about automated systems, which are mistakenly incorporating racial and gender bias.