Oren Etzioni — Tools For Equality: How AI can help improve accessibility
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Oren Etzioni — Tools For Equality: How AI can help improve accessibility

In 2020, I hope the AI community will grapple with issues of fairness in ways that tangibly and directly benefit disadvantaged populations.

January 1, 20201 min read
Oren Etzioni — Tools For Equality: How AI can help improve accessibility
Bias

Oren Etzioni — Tools For Equality: How AI can help improve accessibility

In 2020, I hope the AI community will grapple with issues of fairness in ways that tangibly and directly benefit disadvantaged populations.

January 1, 20201 min read
Google's AI Explains Itself: How Google's xAI tools help evaluate model performance
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Google's AI Explains Itself: How Google's xAI tools help evaluate model performance

Google's AI platform offers a view into the mind of its machines. Explainable AI (xAI) tools show which features exerted the most influence on a model’s decision, so users can evaluate model performance and potentially mitigate biased results.

December 4, 20192 min read
Bias Fighter: A neural network for countering bias variables in data
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Bias Fighter: A neural network for countering bias variables in data

Sophisticated models trained on biased data can learn discriminatory patterns, which leads to skewed decisions. A new solution aims to prevent neural networks from making decisions based on common biases.

December 4, 20192 min read
Google's AI Explains Itself: How Google's xAI tools help evaluate model performance
Bias

Google's AI Explains Itself: How Google's xAI tools help evaluate model performance

Google's AI platform offers a view into the mind of its machines. Explainable AI (xAI) tools show which features exerted the most influence on a model’s decision, so users can evaluate model performance and potentially mitigate biased results.

December 4, 20192 min read
Bias Fighter: A neural network for countering bias variables in data
Bias

Bias Fighter: A neural network for countering bias variables in data

Sophisticated models trained on biased data can learn discriminatory patterns, which leads to skewed decisions. A new solution aims to prevent neural networks from making decisions based on common biases.

December 4, 20192 min read
Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.
Bias

Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.

As black-box algorithms like neural networks find their way into high-stakes fields such as transportation, healthcare, and finance, researchers have developed techniques to help explain models’ decisions. New findings show that some of these methods can be fooled.

November 27, 20192 min read
Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.
Bias

Bias Goes Undercover: Adversarial attacks can fool explainable AI techniques.

As black-box algorithms like neural networks find their way into high-stakes fields such as transportation, healthcare, and finance, researchers have developed techniques to help explain models’ decisions. New findings show that some of these methods can be fooled.

November 27, 20192 min read
Researchers Blocked at the Border: Some African AI researchers blocked from attending NeurIPS
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Researchers Blocked at the Border: Some African AI researchers blocked from attending NeurIPS

Foreign researchers hoping to attend one of AI’s largest conferences were denied entry into Canada, where the event will be held. Most of those blocked were from developing nations.

November 20, 20192 min read
Researchers Blocked at the Border: Some African AI researchers blocked from attending NeurIPS
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Researchers Blocked at the Border: Some African AI researchers blocked from attending NeurIPS

Foreign researchers hoping to attend one of AI’s largest conferences were denied entry into Canada, where the event will be held. Most of those blocked were from developing nations.

November 20, 20192 min read
Biased Data Trains Oppressive AI
Bias

Biased Data Trains Oppressive AI

Will biases in training data unwittingly turn AI into a tool for persecution? Bias encoded in software used by nominally objective institutions like, say, the justice or education systems will become impossible to root out.

October 30, 20192 min read
Biased Data Trains Oppressive AI
Bias

Biased Data Trains Oppressive AI

Will biases in training data unwittingly turn AI into a tool for persecution? Bias encoded in software used by nominally objective institutions like, say, the justice or education systems will become impossible to root out.

October 30, 20192 min read
AI Knows Who Labeled the Data
Bias

AI Knows Who Labeled the Data

The latest language models are great at answering questions about a given text passage. However, these models are also powerful enough to recognize an individual writer’s style, which can clue them in to the right answers. New research measures such annotator bias in several data sets.

September 25, 20192 min read
AI Knows Who Labeled the Data
Bias

AI Knows Who Labeled the Data

The latest language models are great at answering questions about a given text passage. However, these models are also powerful enough to recognize an individual writer’s style, which can clue them in to the right answers. New research measures such annotator bias in several data sets.

September 25, 20192 min read
Smart Students, Dumb Algorithms: NLP Systems Struggle at Grading Essays
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Smart Students, Dumb Algorithms: NLP Systems Struggle at Grading Essays

A growing number of companies that sell standardized tests are using natural language processing to assess writing skills. Critics contend that these language models don’t make the grade.

September 4, 20191 min read

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