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50 years ago, it was legal to deny a woman credit without a male co-signer
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The 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act made it illegal to discriminate against applicants based on sex or marital status.
Nearly 1 in 4 Black borrowers are denied a mortgage
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Comparatively, 1 in 10 white borrowers are turned away.
New NYC law restricts hiring based on artificial intelligence
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Employers won’t be allowed to use AI to screen job candidates unless the tech has gone through an audit to check for bias.
“Wherever you look at human judgements, you are likely to find noise”
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In a new book, Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman looks at a problem with human judgement.
Perhaps Congress took "The Wizard of Oz" a bit too seriously
At the House Judiciary Committee hearing with Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, Rep. Zoe Lofgren from California had to ask for clarification that Google’s Search algorithm is not a “little man sitting behind the curtain figuring out what [Google is] going to show.” She wasn’t the only one that was confused by how Google works. On […]
How women landed the invisible work of social media labor
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It can start with the language used in job descriptions.
What’s the return on investment for bias trainings?
We look into how bias trainings work and how companies measure their effectiveness.
Why facial recognition software has trouble recognizing people of color
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"Data reflects our history, and our history has been very biased to date," MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini says.
Companies use ads to pitch issues over products
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Tackling social problems in campaigns can be tricky. Just ask Pepsi.
Full interview: ProPublica’s Julia Angwin on biased sentencing algorithms
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Looking at the racial bias of algorithms.

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