#discrimination (19 results)
Story, 4 December 2020
Health algorithms discriminate against Black patients, also in Switzerland
Algorithms used to assess kidney function or predict heart failure use race as a central criterion. Continue reading the story on the AlgorithmWatch Switzerland website
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Story, 18 October 2020
Automated discrimination: Facebook uses gross stereotypes to optimize ad delivery
An experiment by AlgorithmWatch shows that online platforms optimize ad delivery in discriminatory ways. Advertisers who use them could be breaking the law.
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Story, 17 September 2020
Female historians and male nurses do not exist, Google Translate tells its European users
An experiment shows that Google Translate systematically changes the gender of translations when they do not fit with stereotypes. It is all because of English, Google says
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Story, 12 August 2020
Algorithmic grading is not an answer to the challenges of the pandemic
Graeme Tiffany is a philosopher of education. He argues that replacing exams with algorithmic grading, as was done in Great Britain, exacerbates inequalities and fails to assess students' abilities.
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Story, 15 June 2020
Undress or fail: Instagram’s algorithm strong-arms users into showing skin
An exclusive investigation reveals that Instagram prioritizes photos of scantily-clad men and women, shaping the behavior of content creators and the worldview of 140 millions Europeans in what remains a blind spot of EU regulations.
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Story, 19 May 2020
Automated moderation tool from Google rates People of Color and gays as “toxic”
A systematic review of Google’s Perspective, a tool for automated content moderation, reveals that some adjectives are considered more toxic than others.
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Story, 28 April 2020
Unchecked use of computer vision by police carries high risks of discrimination
At least 11 local police forces in Europe use computer vision to automatically analyze images from surveillance cameras. The risks of discrimination run high but authorities ignore them.
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Story, 7 April 2020
Google apologizes after its Vision AI produced racist results
A Google service that automatically labels images produced starkly different results depending on skin tone on a given image. The company fixed the issue, but the problem is likely much broader.
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