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How Flawed Data Aggravates Inequality in Credit
AI offers new tools for calculating credit risk. But it can be tripped up by noisy data, leading to disadvantages for...
Rooting Out Anti-Muslim Bias in Popular Language Model GPT-3
This “severe” bias must be addressed before these language models become ingrained in real-world tasks.
De-Identifying Medical Patient Data Doesn’t Protect Our Privacy
A Stanford researcher makes the case that de-identifying health records used for research doesn’t offer anonymity and...
Future of Work: Beyond Bossware and Job-Killing Robots
To encourage a human-centered workplace, we must rethink AI-driven automation, bossware, labor taxes, and corporate R...
Designing Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just Future
Experts critiqued smart cities, agtech, blockchain, and policing during Stanford's first Technology and Racial Equity...
A New Approach To Mitigating AI’s Negative Impact
Stanford launches an Ethics and Society Review Board that asks researchers to take an early look at the impact of their...
HAI Fellow Michelle Spektor: How the History of Biometrics Informs Its Future
Israel’s and the UK’s decisions regarding biometric ID reveal major differences in how countries and social movements...
Susan Liautaud: We Must Democratize Ethics and Rethink Greedy Business Models
The ethics expert discusses problematic incentive structures, rising employee activism, and the need for board...
Stanford Researchers: AI Technologies Must Not Exacerbate Health Care Disparities
Medical devices employing AI stand to benefit everyone in society, but if left unchecked, the technologies could...
Kunle Olukotun: How to Make AI More Democratic
A chip designer talks about how advances in hardware will be needed to make the much-hyped artificially intelligent...
Artists’ Perspective: How AI Enhances Creativity and Reimagines Meaning
The HAI spring conference examines how technology and art can be mutually beneficial, whether through AI-assisted music...
How Can We Better Regulate AI Companies?
Legal scholar Sonia Katyal discusses why trade secrets law shouldn't protect AI, government’s role in regulation, and...