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Data and Computer Scientists, Ecologists, Pathologists, and Legal Scholars Study AI’s Biases
by Catherine Kenny
April 13, 2021
Artificial Intelligence touches almost every aspect of our lives, from mobile banking and online shopping to social media and real-time traffic maps. But what happens when artificial intelligence is biased? What if it makes mistakes on important decisions from who gets a job interview or a mortgage to who gets arrested and how much time they ultimately serve for a crime?
“These everyday decisions can greatly affect the trajectories of our lives and increasingly, they’re being made not by people, but by machines,” said UC Davis computer science professor Ian Davidson.