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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

When recognizing faces and emotions, artificial intelligence (AI) can be biased, like classifying white people as happier than people from other racial backgrounds. This happens because the data used ...

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 ...