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      A snapshot of the frontiers of fairness in machine learning

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      Communications of the ACM
      Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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          A group of industry, academic, and government experts convene in Philadelphia to explore the roots of algorithmic bias.

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              Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases

              Machine learning is a means to derive artificial intelligence by discovering patterns in existing data. Here, we show that applying machine learning to ordinary human language results in human-like semantic biases. We replicated a spectrum of known biases, as measured by the Implicit Association Test, using a widely used, purely statistical machine-learning model trained on a standard corpus of text from the World Wide Web. Our results indicate that text corpora contain recoverable and accurate imprints of our historic biases, whether morally neutral as toward insects or flowers, problematic as toward race or gender, or even simply veridical, reflecting the status quo distribution of gender with respect to careers or first names. Our methods hold promise for identifying and addressing sources of bias in culture, including technology.
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                Journal
                Communications of the ACM
                Commun. ACM
                Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
                0001-0782
                1557-7317
                April 20 2020
                April 20 2020
                : 63
                : 5
                : 82-89
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
                [2 ]University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
                Article
                10.1145/3376898
                c01f18aa-b6b0-4c6c-be58-1b64caa3a3cb
                © 2020
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