Affinity Bias: We all have a natural tendency to gravitate toward people similar to us in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age and lifestyle. This unconscious bias can lead us to hire people who look ...
We all have biases. They’re our brain’s way of reducing the energy it takes to deal with the terabytes of information thrown at us every day. We connect the dots, fill in the gaps with stuff we ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rebekah Bastian writes about workplace culture, equity and belonging. There is a significant amount of discussion around bias in ...
In recent years, machine learning (ML) algorithms have proved themselves to be remarkably useful in helping people deal with different tasks: data classification and clustering, pattern revealing, ...
David Baidoo-Anu and Monsurat Raji say their research shows that cultural bias in exam questions can put students at a ...
As artificial intelligence (AI) usage has grown, the potential of bias in AI has gained more attention, as evidenced by Google Trends data (Figure 1). A recent study 1 by Herrera-Berg et al. (2023) ...
Emergent biases can still emerge even when we have trained the machine-learning algorithms with a cleansed data set with no known biases. The AI bias problem is often treated as a data problem, ...
Are we ever able to answer questions about bias fairly? I have been brooding over this question for some time, partly through my research on the micro judgments we make throughout our day, but also ...