Tag: algorithmic bias
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Forget the Trolley Problem; Pragmatic and Fair AI in the Real World
Update: my article has been published on TowardsDataScience, selected as an editor’s pick, and highlighted in TowardsDataScience’s weekly newsletter “The Variable”! The AI doomsday scenarios, ignited by books such as The Filter Bubble (2011) and Weapons of Math Destruction (2016), are slowly being superseded by more pragmatic and nuanced views of AI. Views in which we acknowledge we’re in control of AI and…
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Keynote on Big Data, Machine Learning, and Algorithmic Bias at the Royal Marechaussee
I was invited to give the opening keynote at the Intelligence Day of the Koninklijke Marechaussee (Military Police) on Big Data and Machine Learning, with the aim to explain the audience what ML and Big Data is. I spent a disproportionate amount of time on Algorithmic Bias, because I think this is a hugely important topic…