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Fighting algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence

04 May 2021
Taken from the May 2021 issue of Physics World.

Physicists are increasingly developing artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to advance our understanding of the physical world but there is a rising concern about the bias in such systems and their wider impact on society at large. Julianna Photopoulos explores the issues of racial and gender bias in AI – and what physicists can do to recognize and tackle the problem

Illustration of a face formed from pixels
Built-in bias As artificial intelligence permeates many aspects of science and society, researchers must be aware of bias that creeps into these seemingly neutral systems, and the negative impacts on the already marginalized. (Courtesy: iStock/imaginima)
In 2011, during her undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ghanaian-US computer sc

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