#machinebias — Public Fediverse posts

The Register: Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students. “New research warns about the dangers of teaching LLMs on the output of other models, showing that undesirable traits can be transmitted ‘subliminally’ from teacher to student, even when they are scrubbed from training data.”

PsyPost: AI autocomplete suggestions covertly change how users think about important topics. “New research provides evidence that interacting with biased autocomplete suggestions can covertly shift a person’s underlying attitudes on important societal issues. The findings, published in the journal Science Advances, suggest that the subtle influence of these everyday programs often bypasses […]

PsyPost: Efforts to make AI inclusive accidentally create bizarre new gender biases, new research suggests. “New research published in Computers in Human Behavior Reports suggests that efforts to make artificial intelligence more inclusive can sometimes create unexpected new biases.”

The Register: UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias . “A UK police force has suspended its deployment of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after a study revealed it was statistically more likely to identify Black people on a watchlist database.”

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https://www.listentoyourmuse.com/data-ethics

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Link to the article:
https://www.listentoyourmuse.com/data-ethics

#AIethics #artificialintelligence #machinebias #NorbertWiener #JamesMoor #ethicalAI #AIdecisionmaking #technologyandethics #trustinAI #AIbias #computerethics #globalAIimpact
#newsletter #muse #listentoyourmuse #technology #technologynews