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Social justice
fromFortune
3 days ago

AI is the most important civil and human rights issue of our time - HBCUs need to be in the driver's seat | Fortune

AI systems currently reproduce existing inequalities across hiring, healthcare, finance, and criminal justice, requiring diverse collaboration to build equitable technology that benefits all humanity.
Privacy technologies
fromPrivacy International
3 days ago

Privacy International's remarks at the side event of the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights Council on the Human Rights Impacts of Using Artificial Intelligence in Countering Terrorism

AI-driven counter-terrorism tools create surveillance risks and generate unreliable threat assessments that discriminate against individuals and violate fundamental human rights.
Artificial intelligence
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks ago

How AI-driven hiring tools are quietly reinforcing the biases they promised to fix - Silicon Canals

AI-powered recruitment tools replicate and amplify historical biases from training data rather than eliminating them, despite being marketed as objective and bias-free.
Privacy technologies
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away

UK police facial recognition software arrested an innocent man after misidentifying him as a burglary suspect, revealing significant racial bias in the algorithm's accuracy rates.
#ai-bias
fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

AI disproportionately discriminates against trans people. It doesn't have to be this way. - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

AI disproportionately discriminates against trans people. It doesn't have to be this way. - LGBTQ Nation

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US politics
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
3 months ago

The Trump Administration's Order on AI Is Deeply Misguided

A federal executive order would punish and preempt state AI regulations, undermining state efforts to prevent discriminatory harms from automated decision-making systems.
fromIT Pro
3 months ago

Big tech looks set to swerve AI regulations - at least for now

In the US, Trump is considering using an executive order to ban regulations to rein in AI, according to , while in Europe, the European Commission said it wants to delay some aspects of the AI Act in response to complaints from big tech over bureaucracy. With no federal laws regulating AI forthcoming in the US, some states have pushed to enact their own local legislation, including recent laws in California and Colorado.
US politics
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
4 months ago

Scientists Say Their AI System Can Scan Your Face to Detect Whether a Company Should Hire You

AI systems can predict personality traits and associated financial success from facial images, risking discriminatory use in hiring, lending, and rental decisions.
Miscellaneous
fromwww.cnn.com
1 year ago

Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads, European human rights body rules | CNN Business

Facebook's algorithm reinforced gender stereotypes in job ads, showing male-dominated roles to men and female-dominated roles to women, limiting employment opportunities.
fromSan Francisco Public Press
8 months ago

Drivers Protest Uber's 'Black Box' Fare System

Uber's fare pricing algorithm, introduced in July 2022, utilizes extensive data from drivers and passengers to determine fares for rides. This results in significant wage discrepancies among drivers, even for identical routes.
Tech industry
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