Algorithms May Not Lie, But They Can Have Bias

Published: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 4:00pm
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Artificial intelligence has become a bigger part of our day-to-day lives, but a new paper argues it’s not immune from human bias and errors.

Bill Welser is a co-author of that report. He leads the Engineering and Applied Sciences Department at the RAND Corporation.

His paper is titled “An Intelligence in our Image; The Risks of Bias and Errors in Artificial Intelligence.”

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