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  1. Dec 2023
    1. 2016, the investigative journalism outfit ProPublica showed that software used across the United States to predict future criminals was biased against African-Americans.

      the ai biases stay the same until today. This shows that ai's bias won't change unless we do something or fix it.

    2. But by codifying the human selectors’ discriminatory practices into a technical system, he was ensuring that these biases would be replayed in perpetuity.

      why the bias happened

    3. If their names were non-Caucasian, the selection process was weighted against them. In fact, simply having a non-European name could automatically take 15 points off an applicant’s score. Within a few years, some staff members had become concerned by the lack of diversity among successful applicants.

      of course the program was biased from the beginning. I believe it just proves where ai bias started even better

    4. In the 1970s, Dr. Geoffrey Franglen of St. George’s Hospital Medical School in London began writing an algorithm to screen student applications for admission.

      The start of AI being used in institutions, I believe it was a breakthrough and at the same time, a start of a program bias

    1. large gender and racial bias in AI systems sold by tech giants like IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon.

      more accidental insitituional racism as companies are feeding wrong information and training data into the AI without knowing.

    2. The underrepresentation of women and people of color in technology, and the under-sampling of these groups in the data that shapes AI, has led to the creation of technology that is optimized for a small portion of the world.

      This is important as it is one of the main reasons for the poor, biased, decisions of the ai code. It is also instutuional oppression as it is the comapny deciding who to test for their ai data, even if it is an accident. i think with a bigger diversiety of testers, ai will be mroe ethical and omptimized for everyone to use. i feel hopeful

    3. systems that amplify, rather than rectify, sexist hiring practices, racist criminal justice procedures, predatory advertising, and the spread of false information.

      interpersonal oppression as these negative outcomes of ai influence others ideas. i think those ideas are then used in places like governments and law enforcement

    1. The researchers found that the participants who received the fake AI suggestions went on to incorporate the same bias into their future decisions, even after the guidance was no longer offered.

      the fictional AI mistakes gradually changed the mind of the users of it just with a few suggestions.

      again i am amazed how it can manipulate people so easily

    2. Matute and Vicente offered subsets of the participants purposefully skewed suggestions that, if followed, would lead them to classify images incorrectly. The scientists described these suggestions as originating from a “diagnostic assistance system based on an artificial intelligence

      this is an important part of the article that shows one of the real examples of when people believe AI without thinking

    3. For example, when the technology publication Rest of World recently analyzed popular AI image generators, it found that these programs tended toward ethnic and national stereotypes.

      important as there are already clear examples of bias in AI

      it is astonishing for such a recent product to do this.

    4. AI can also display biases that get introduced through the massive data troves that these programs are trained on

      important becuase its how it starts'

      i am amazed by how easily a good program can be corrupted by false data

  2. Nov 2023
  3. Sep 2023
    1. irst in groups are the groups you belong to they're your social identities your hometown religious affiliation school those are 00:01:46 your in-groups they're part of who you are so then out groups are the groups we don't belong to like i'm from the united states and so for me canadians are my out group growing up i was a cubs 00:01:59 fan and so sox fans would be my out group

      summary of social identity theory

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      Summary and words from image to copy and paste <br /> Prejudice can be conscious or unconscious and involves stereotypes, prejudgments, and beliefs (which are usually negative) about a group of people. These beliefs can be based on: race, sex, gender, religion, culture, disability, sexuality, etc. Keywords: Negative beliefs, assumption, stereotypes, Racism Sexism, Ageism, Classism, Homophobia, Nationalism, Religious, prejudice, Xenophobia

    1. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY UNDERSTANDING AND DESCRIBING THE COMMUNITY?

      physical aspects,infrastructure, patterns of settlement, commerce, and industry, demographics, history, community leaders, community culture, existing groups, existing institutions, economics, government/politics, social structure, and attitudes and variables. Are the keywords

    1. We develop ideas about our identities and the identities of others through our interactions with people close to us, like our family and friends, our schools and other institutions, the mass media, and our encounters with other individuals.

      this is important