{"id":413704,"date":"2017-12-07T10:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c3ce57d137db88e88b1c7a9e73cd1010"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:20:02","slug":"reducing-discrimination-in-ai-with-new-methodology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=413704","title":{"rendered":"Reducing discrimination in AI with new methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally had a chance to watch Hidden Figures on my long journey to Sydney, where I co-organized the second annual ICML Workshop on Human Interpretability (WHI).  The film poignantly illustrates how discriminating by race and gender to limit access to employment and education is suboptimal for a society that wants to achieve greatness.  Some of my work published earlier this year (co-authored with L. R. Varshney) explains such discrimination by human decision makers as a consequence of bounded rationality and segregated environments; today, however, the bias, discrimination, and unfairness present in algorithmic decision making in the field of AI is arguably of even greater concern than discrimination by people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally had a chance to watch Hidden Figures on my long journey to Sydney, where I co-organized the second annual ICML Workshop on Human Interpretability (WHI).  The film poignantly illustrates how discriminating by race and gender to limit access to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=413704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413705,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413704\/revisions\/413705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=413704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=413704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=413704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}