Burnout and bias can lead to poor care during childbirth – we created a project in Kenya that helps health workers: An estimated 800 women die every day across the world as a result of pregnancy-related complications. Most deaths (95%) occur in low- and middle-income countries. Two-thirds are in sub-Saharan Africa. For every woman who …
Prince Harry is wrong: unconscious bias is not different to racism: When Prince Harry sat down with ITV journalist Tom Bradby for a conversation about his marriage, his estrangement from the royal family and his tell-all memoir, Spare, one particular segment stood out. Bradby said that Harry had accused some members of his family of …
People of colour: there’s a bias in how pictures are used to depict disease in global health publications: shutterstock Photography is a powerful tool in storytelling and scientific communication. But it can also cause harm when used unethically. We started to realise how photographs can send the wrong message when we were approached, as a …
The cognitive bias that tripped us up during the pandemic: The human brain is a marvellous machine, capable of handling complex information. To help us make sense of information quickly and make rapid decisions, it has learned to use shortcuts, called “heuristics”. Most of the time, these shortcuts help us to make good decisions. But …
The role of bias in how women are treated during childbirth: a Kenyan case study: GettyImages Global maternal mortality is unacceptably high. Around 810 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. A number of factors drive maternal mortality. In developing countries it is often due to women not having access …
South Africa in the news: Prince Harry Says He Understood Implicit Bias By ‘Living In My Wife’s Shoes’: Prince Harry didn’t grow up in an environment that taught him to think about or challenge the racist ideas he didn’t even realize he held, he said in a candid new conversation. But his marriage to …: …
SMDCAC Presents Virtual Indie Flicks: Coded Bias – a Culture interest event taking place on 2020-09-15 19:30:00 in United States When a MIT Media Lab researcher discovers that facial recognition software does not accurately identify darker-skinned or women’s faces, she launches a female-led movement to fight bias in the algorithms and Artificial Intelligence that increasingly …
Four things that can bias how teachers assess student work: stockfour/Shutterstock The way that teachers assess students has been under scrutiny since the UK government announced that this would be one element of a range of evidence used to replace GCSE and A Level exams this year. Teacher assessment is a key part of university …
Artificial Intelligence has a gender bias problem — just ask Siri: Sexist stereotypes are playing out in the world of artificial intelligence. yavi/Shutterstock Suggest to Samsung’s Virtual Personal Assistant Bixby “Let’s talk dirty”, and the female voice will respond with a honeyed accent: “I don’t want to end up on Santa’s naughty list.” Ask the …
The Ethics of Cultural Self-Awareness: Bias and the Therapeutic Process with Michael Kahn, LPC, JD – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-01-12 09:00:00 in United States The Ethics of Cultural Self-Awareness: Bias and the Therapeutic Process The cost of the ethics program includes a free year of membership with the NCSCSW. This conference …
CLIP OS, fighting bias and diagnosing cancer with AI, Consul open source citizen participation platform, and more news: In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look France’s new secure operating system, IBM’s bias-hunting toolkit, using open source AI to diagnose cancer, and more. French security agency releases CLIP OS The …
Director of Google.org on challenges of unconscious bias: This year at SxSW, I kicked things off by attending a great talk with the director of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller. She had a conversation with Hugh Forrest, and started by letting us know that to her Austin feels like a “Googley” city where everyone is very friendly. read more Opensource.com – nengard Supporting …