AI can reinforce discrimination — but used correctly it could make hiring more inclusive: Shift Drive / Shutterstock Hiring is normally featured as a prime example for algorithmic bias. This is where a tendency to favour some groups over others becomes accidentally fixed in an AI system designed to perform a specific task. There are …
Disenchanted: Disney attempts to break stereotypes of motherhood only to reinforce them: Disney Mothers in fairy tales have a way of being absent, typically through untimely deaths (think Cinderella, Snow White or Beauty and the Beast) or thanks to storylines that position them as background characters. Disney’s Disenchanted turns this on its head. Here, at …
How cop shows serve to reinforce the racism at the heart of our culture: DedMityay/Shutterstock TV police shows are a complicated strand of entertainment. Unsurprisingly, they have come under the cultural microscope in response to police brutality and the death of George Floyd. Many critiques have drawn upon a report by US civil-rights group Color …
Telematics data set to reinforce positive driver behaviour: Experts across the global economy are hailing the economic power of ‘big data’. Articles and opinions abound in the media about how commerce is changing thanks to the ability to analyse massive sets of information. But big data is not the only force impacting business models and …