Hacker News with Generative AI: Bias

Brits still associate working-class accents with criminals – study warns of bias (cam.ac.uk)
People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as more likely to have committed a crime, and becoming victims of injustice, a new study suggests.

Social Science, Linguistics, Stereotypes, Bias, Criminology

10 points by gnabgib 10 hours ago | 2 comments

OpenAI revises policy doc to remove reference to 'politically unbiased' AI (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI has quietly removed language endorsing “politically unbiased” AI from one of its recently published policy documents.

OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Policy, Bias

22 points by ivanleoncz 2 days ago | 11 comments

Heritage Foundation plans to 'identify and target' Wikipedia editors (forward.com)
The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are “abusing their position” by publishing content the group believes to be antisemitic, according to documents obtained by the Forward.

Wikipedia, Journalism, Politics, Bias, Conspiracy Theories

24 points by Timothee 10 days ago | 0 comments

Political Bias in Large Language Models: Insights Across Topic Polarization (arxiv.org)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely used to generate responses on social topics due to their world knowledge and generative capabilities.

Generative AI, Bias, Political Science, Social Media

9 points by PaulHoule 11 days ago | 2 comments

Tech-Giants Use Unethical Layoff Practices to Justify Bias and Retaliation (medium.com)
Picture this: You’re a high-performing employee at one of the world’s most admired tech giants — a company that touts its values of transparency, employee well-being, and an unrelenting commitment to innovation. You’ve hit your targets, earned accolades from your peers, and even gone above and beyond to deliver results. But then, without warning, you find yourself on the receiving end of a performance review laced with criticisms you never saw coming. Your contributions, once celebrated, are suddenly diminished.

Tech, Layoffs, Ethics, Bias, Workplace

7 points by ZuckMusk 57 days ago | 0 comments

AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews (theregister.com)
In mock interviews for software engineering jobs, recent AI models that evaluated responses rated men less favorably – particularly those with Anglo-Saxon names, according to recent research.

Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Technology, Employment, Software Engineering

4 points by graemep 58 days ago | 3 comments

Is the UK's liver transplant matching algorithm biased against younger patients? (aisnakeoil.com)
Predictive algorithms are used in many life-or-death situations. In the paper Against Predictive Optimization, we argued that the use of predictive logic for making decisions about people has recurring, inherent flaws, and should be rejected in many cases.

Healthcare, Algorithms, Bias, Ethics

93 points by randomwalker 67 days ago | 62 comments

AI prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias (geekwire.com)
As employers increasingly use digital tools to process job applications, a new study from the University of Washington highlights the potential for significant racial and gender bias when using AI to screen resumes.

Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Employment, Technology, Social Issues

9 points by ohjeez 75 days ago | 2 comments

AI overwhelmingly prefers white male candidates in test of resume-screening bias (geekwire.com)
As employers increasingly use digital tools to process job applications, a new study from the University of Washington highlights the potential for significant racial and gender bias when using AI to screen resumes.

Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Hiring, Technology, Research

5 points by ceejayoz 78 days ago | 1 comments

AI's "Human in the Loop" Isn't (pluralistic.net)
AI's ability to make – or assist with – important decisions is fraught: on the one hand, AI can often classify things very well, at a speed and scale that outstrips the ability of any reasonably resourced group of humans. On the other hand, AI is sometimes very wrong, in ways that can be terribly harmful.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Ethics, Bias

5 points by croes 78 days ago | 0 comments

ChatGPT's Name Bias and Apple's Findings on AI's Lack of Reasoning (medium.com)
A recent article by OpenAI titled “Assessing Fairness in ChatGPT” reveals that the identity of users can influence the responses provided by ChatGPT.

Artificial Intelligence, Bias, Apple

12 points by Joooe 91 days ago | 15 comments

The Illusion of Information Adequacy (plos.org)

Information, Psychology, Bias, Research

29 points by omk 99 days ago | 7 comments

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005) (plos.org)
There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false.

Science, Research, Statistics, Bias

231 points by Michelangelo11 115 days ago | 271 comments

The Best Advice I've Ever Received (tomtunguz.com)
“Advice is one person’s experience generalized”, an entrepreneur told me once. “It’s a single point of view with all kinds of survivorship and attribution bias. Advice can be a terribly dangerous thing, because it can be used as a shortcut for thinking.”

Entrepreneurship, Advice, Bias

8 points by yamrzou 119 days ago | 2 comments

Twitter Runs on Hate – But Its Users Don't Reflect Real Life (theamericansaga.com)

Social Media, Bias, Twitter

9 points by ca98am79 132 days ago | 10 comments

Uniqueness Bias: Why it matters, how to curb it (arxiv.org)

Cognitive Science, Psychology, Bias, Research

118 points by bikenaga 153 days ago | 67 comments

Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. Experts Say They're Close to Meaningless (themarkup.org)

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Evaluation, Bias

28 points by billybuckwheat 184 days ago | 19 comments

Study reveals why AI models that analyze medical images can be biased (medicalxpress.com)