Fairness in Artificial Intelligence

This module explores fairness in Artificial Intelligence (AI), focusing on identifying and mitigating biases in AI systems. It covers the sources of bias, methods for assessing and improving fairness, and the ethical implications of AI decisions on different populations, aiming to promote equality and prevent discrimination in AI applications.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing

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Olteanu, Alexandra, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, and Emre Kıcıman. “Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries.” Frontiers in Big Data 2 (July 11, 2019): 13.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2019.00013

Mehrabi, Ninareh, Fred Morstatter, Nanyun Peng, and Aram Galstyan. “Debiasing Community Detection: The Importance of Lowly-Connected Nodes.” arXiv, 2019.

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Zhao, Jieyu, Tianlu Wang, Mark Yatskar, Vicente Ordonez, and Kai-Wei Chang. “Men Also Like Shopping: Reducing Gender Bias Amplification Using Corpus-Level Constraints.” arXiv, 2017.

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Mehrabi, Ninareh, Fred Morstatter, Nripsuta Saxena, Kristina Lerman, and Aram Galstyan. “A Survey on Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning.” ACM Computing Surveys 54, no. 6 (July 13, 2021): 1–35.

https://doi.org/10.1145/3457607