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Machines are getting schooled on fairness
Machine-learning programs can introduce biases that may harm job seekers, loan applicants and more
By
Maria Temming

FAIR-MINDED MACHINES There is more than one approach to trimming unintended biases from the machines that we are teaching to make more and more of our decisions.

Alex NaBaum
Magazine issue: Vol. 192 No. 4, September 16, 2017, p. 26

You’ve probably encountered at least one machine-learning algorithm today. These clever computer codes sort search engine results, weed spam e-mails from inboxes and optimize navigation routes in real time. People entrust these programs with increasingly complex — and sometimes life-changing — decisions, such as diagnosing diseases and predicting criminal activity.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/machines-are-getting-schooled-fairness

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