Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The following is a lightly edited version of comments made as part ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today. Facial recognition ...

Tech companies acknowledge machine-learning algorithms can perpetuate discrimination and need improvement. By Zachary Small The artist Stephanie Dinkins has long been a pioneer in combining art and ...

Artificial-intelligence programs, like the humans who develop and train them, are far from perfect. Whether it’s machine-learning software that analyzes medical images or a generative chatbot, such as ...

T.J. Thomson receives funding from the Australian Research Council through DE230101233, DP210100859, and LP220100208. Ryan J. Thomas does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

Have you ever struggled to get a voice recognition device to understand you? If you are a woman, this wouldn’t be so surprising: studies have found that women’s voices are recognised with lower ...

After evidence surfaced in 2018 that leading face-analysis algorithms were less accurate for people with darker skin, companies including Google and Meta adopted measures of skin tone to test the ...

The hope is it will boost a blossoming sector that works to hold artificial-intelligence systems accountable. AI systems are deployed all the time, but it can take months or even years until it ...