Campus Technology

Paper Offers Framework for Reducing Algorithm Bias

A recent paper on algorithm development provided some guidance for how to reduce the bias inherent in AI algorithms as well as the harm those biases can have on underprivileged groups. "A ...
Diginomica

Can we create better algorithms for screening candidates - and reduce hiring bias?

A new research paper from Georgia Tech takes a surprising position on algorithmic bias in hiring. Their view: we can reduce screening bias if algorithms take the impacted demographic groups into ...
Mashable

Algorithms control your online life. Here's how to reduce their influence.

Social media algorithms train your brain by reinforcing and radicalizing what you like and love. Credit: MASHABLE COMPOSITE: ISTOCK / JOLYGON / GETTY PLUS Mashable's series Algorithms explores the ...
Wired

New Algorithms Could Reduce Racial Disparities in Health Care

Researchers trying to improve health care with artificial intelligence usually subject their algorithms to a form of machine med school. Software learns from doctors by digesting thousands or millions ...
The Conversation

Including race in clinical algorithms can both reduce and increase health inequities – it depends on what doctors use them for

Anirban Basu received funding support from a consortium of ten biomedical companies to the University of Washington through an unrestricted gift. Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that ...
EurekAlert!

Reducing hospital stays through treatment algorithms that make a difference

MUSC Children's Health hematologists/oncologists Dr. Michelle Hudspeth (left) and Dr. Shayla Bergmann (right) conducted a study of a new algorithm to standardize the ...