New research from a team of Computing and Information Science scholars raises questions about hiring algorithms and the tech companies who develop and use them.
Source: Are hiring algorithms fair? They’re too opaque to tell, study finds | Cornell Chronicle
New study finds bias in a common algorithm hospitals use to deploy extra medical help: It favored healthier white patients over sicker black patients.
Source: Researchers Find Racial Bias in Hospital Algorithm – WSJ
Companies are increasingly using algorithms to set their prices, but is that giving them too much power over consumers?
Yoshua Bengio is among 26 AI scientists calling for Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to police
Source: Amazon Schooled on AI Facial Technology By Turing Award Winner – Bloomberg
The Canadian scientist Donna Strickland is an associate professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Waterloo, a former president of the Optical Society and as of Tuesday, one of the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. But until the hours after Ms Strickland’s win, the physicist did not have her own Wikipedia page as she was not considered significant enough.
Source: Wikipedia criticised after it emerges female Nobel laureate had page rejected | The Independent
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.
Source: Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women | Reuters
