Tag: algorithmic bias

• Can Auditing Eliminate Bias from Algorithms?

  1 March 2021

  Written by Alfred Ng on The Markup.

  “Increasingly, companies are turning to these firms to review their algorithms, particularly when they’ve faced criticism for biased outcomes, but it’s not clear whether such audits are actually making algorithms less biased—or if they’re simply good PR.”

  Read ‘Can Auditing Eliminate Bias from Algorithms?’ on the The Markup site.

  Tagged with: algorithmic bias, auditing, discrimination.

• Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm

  30 June 2020

  Written by Kashmir Hill on The New York Times.

  “We’ve been active in trying to sound the alarm bells around facial recognition, both as a threat to privacy when it works and a racist threat to everyone when it doesn’t,” said Phil Mayor, an attorney at [American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan]. “We know these stories are out there, but they’re hard to hear about because people don’t usually realize they’ve been the victim of a bad facial recognition search.”

  Read ‘Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm’ on the The New York Times site.

  Tagged with: facial recognition, algorithmic bias, racism.