In clinical handoffs, biased language can hinder empathy and negatively affect clinicians’ ability to recall patient health information, according to a study published Dec. 17 in JAMA. To examine the ...

Can verified facts be biased? On May 9 Frontline aired the documentary, "Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court.” The long presentation stands, in my view, as the most ...

Bias in AI isn’t just baked into the training data; it’s shaped by us and embedded in the broader ecosystem of human-AI interaction. This cognitive bias emerges from the dynamic interplay between ...

Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. The following is a lightly edited version of comments made as part ...

A new study shows that when clinicians hear a patient described with negatively biased language, they develop less empathy towards the patient and, in some cases, become less accurate in recalling the ...

“Mike Dean is one of the worst referees in the history of world football, to me, and one of the worst men to have ever lived.” The person at the other end of the phone is a passionate but measured and ...

Do you know anyone in your life who often points the finger at others for being biased and yet is completely unaware of their own biased opinions? The answer is most likely yes. “You are biased, not ...

Photo: Source: John MacCormick, CC BY-ND In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today.

Source: Ataturk.svg: Nevit Nevit Dilmen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Many on the American left, having suffered a resounding defeat in the 2024 presidential election, have recently expressed a ...

Whenever we talk about artificial intelligence, the problem of bias is never far behind. All kinds of insidious patterns can get embedded in these systems because they’re trained on data from our ...