Topic
algorithmic bias
184 published works
Health Law Prof Blog
Algorithmic Discrimination and Input Accountability under the Civil Rights Acts
Robert P. Bartlett (University of California), Adair Morse (University of California), Nancy Wallace (University of California), Richard Stanton (University of California), Algorithmic Discrimination and Input Accountability under the Civil Rights…
UK Human Rights Blog
The Weekly Round-up: A-level Results, Facial Recognition, and Special Educational Needs
By Sam Sykes
In the news This week has been awash with controversy over an unexpectedly harsh set of A-level results, with GCSEs set to follow this Thursday. Because students could not sit…
Internet & Social Media Law Blog
Digitalized Discrimination: COVID-19 and the Impact of Bias in Artificial Intelligence
By Michael S. Horikawa, Jordan Rhodes
As the world grapples with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have become increasingly reliant on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Experts have used AI to test potential treatments, diagnose…
UK Human Rights Blog
Government Scraps Immigration “Streaming Tool” before Judicial Review
In response to a legal challenge brought by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), the Home Office has scrapped an algorithm used for sorting visa applications. Represented…
Artificial Intelligence Technology and the Law Blog
Eliminating Structural Bias in Data-Based Technologies: A Path Forward
As national protests over systemic and structural racism in America continue, community organizers, Black scholars, and others fighting injustice and unequal treatment are once again raising awareness of a long-standing…
Artificial Intelligence Technology and the Law Blog
Eliminating Structural Bias in Data-Based Technologies: A Path Forward
As national protests over systemic and structural racism in America continue, community organizers, Black scholars, and others fighting injustice and unequal treatment are once again raising awareness of a long-standing…
Of Digital Interest
Public Backlash Calls Use of Facial Recognition Systems into Question
By Laura E. Jehl, Kari Prochaska
In recent weeks and months, legal and technical issues related to use of facial recognition systems in the United States have received national attention, including concerns that the technology lacks…
Mike McBride Online
Linked: Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm
By Mike McBride
This is easy to believe. ““I strongly suspect this is not the first case to misidentify someone to arrest them for a crime they didn’t commit. This is just the…
DC Medical Malpractice & Patient Safety Blog
Concern rises over bias in race-based algorithms for medical decision-making
High-tech wizards may be pushing medicine into a brave new world where important medical decisions rely on supposedly data-driven findings that also may be rooted in an old malignancy: discrimination…
Inside Privacy
French CNIL Publishes Paper on Algorithmic Discrimination
By Kristof Van Quathem, Anna Sophia Oberschelp de Meneses
On June 2, 2020, the French Supervisory Authority (“CNIL”) published a paper on algorithmic discrimination prepared by the French independent administrative authority known as “Défenseur des droits”. The paper is…