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Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination Risks in the Health Sector

01/29/2021 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM in Brüssel (Belgien)
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Risks of discrimination related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making are already well-documented in several domains, including policing, hiring, loans, and benefit fraud detection. In the past year, a number of cases have indicated that the health and medical sector are not immune to the discriminatory effects of AI. Studies have shown that algorithms widely ...

Computers, Privacy & Data Protection
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Web-Event

Bridging the Gap Between EU Non-Discrimination Law and AI

06/10/2020 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM in Oxford (Großbritannien und Nordirland)
Distance : 447 miles

Why Fairness Cannot Be Automated: Bridging the Gap Between EU Non-Discrimination Law and AI Fairness and discrimination in algorithmic systems is globally recognised as a topic of critical importance. To date, a majority of work has started from an American regulatory perspective defined by the notions of ‘disparate treatment’ and ‘disparate impact’. European legal notions of ...

The Oxford Internet Institute
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Lecture

Why Fairness Cannot Be Automated

04/14/2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM in Cambridge (United States of America)
Distance : 3665 miles

Fairness and discrimination in algorithmic systems are globally recognized as topics of critical importance. To date, the majority of work in this area starts from an American regulatory perspective defined by the notions of ‘disparate treatment’ and ‘disparate impact.’ But European legal notions of discrimination are not equivalent. In this talk, Sandra Wachter, Visiting Professor at ...

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Events
Seminar

Algorithmic or human bias? Understanding discrimination in the gig economy

02/04/2020 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM in Oxford (Großbritannien und Nordirland)
Distance : 447 miles

The rapid expansion of the gig economy has raised concerns about the role of algorithms in labor markets. Two central concerns are the potential to exacerbate discrimination in hiring and the suppression of worker wages. By comparison, bias in human decision-making in the gig economy context has not received similar attention. This lecture will redirect attention to human choices, and explore ways ...

The Oxford Internet Institute
Events
Conversation

The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch

01/05/2020 12:00 PM in Washington, D.C. (United States of America)
Distance : 4056 miles

... easily reach across borders to disrupt real-world systems. Laura DeNardis argues that the diffusion of the Internet into the physical world radically escalates governance concerns around privacy, discrimination, human safety, democracy, and national security, and she offers new cyber-policy solutions. In her discussion, she makes visible the sinews of power already embedded in our technology and ...

Politics and Prose Bookstore
Events
Lecture

A New Jim Code?

09/24/2019 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM in Cambridge (United States of America)
Distance : 3665 miles

... Ruha Benjamin on Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, Ruha Benjamin presents the concept of the “New Jim Code" to explore a range ...

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
professional article
Statement

Defective computing: How algorithms use speech analysis to profile job candidates

09/02/2019

... analysis of personality traits also known as “artificial emotional intelligence”, as an important new development. But the methods that are used are often dubious and present serious risks for discrimination.It was announced with some fanfare that Alexa and others would soon demonstrate breakthroughs in the field of emotion analysis. Much is written about affective computing, but products are ...

AlgorithmWatch gGmbH
Events
Lecture

Auditing for Bias in Resume Search Engines

05/21/2019 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM in Cambridge (United States of America)
Distance : 3665 miles

... the relationship between a candidate's gender and their rank in search results. They audit these platform with respect to individual and group fairness, as well as indirect and direct discrimination. Christo Wilson's homepage hereInvestigating the Impact of Gender on Rank in Resume by Le Chen, Ruijun Ma, Anikó Hannák and Christo Wilson ...

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
professional article
Statement

Ethics and algorithmic processes for decision making and decision support

06/01/2018

... ethical and legal criteria are not suitable (or, at least, are inadequate) when considering algorithms generally. They lead to a conceptual blurring with regard to issues such as privacy and discrimination, when information that could potentially be misused to discriminate illegitimately is declared private. Our aim in the present article is, first, to bring a measure of clarity to the debate so ...

AlgorithmWatch gGmbH