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New research warns AI alone won’t fix bias in workplace recruitment
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New research warns AI alone won’t fix bias in workplace recruitment

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used in human resources (HR) to streamline processes and enhance decision-making by helping...

Researchers pioneer use of AI to reduce bias in sports scouting
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Researchers pioneer use of AI to reduce bias in sports scouting

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a first-of-its-kind study in Canada, researchers from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) have demonstrated how artificial intelligence (AI) can...

Portable alleges bias in entertainment industry over Ibrahim Chatta’s AMVCA snub
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Portable alleges bias in entertainment industry over Ibrahim Chatta’s AMVCA snub

Street-hop sensation Habeeb Okikiola, better known by his stage name Portable, is once again making waves, this time, not with music, but with...

‘Sense of fear’: Harvard reports find anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim bias | Education News
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‘Sense of fear’: Harvard reports find anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim bias | Education News

Students and staff at Harvard University have faced both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia amid a deeply polarised atmosphere on the campus of one of...

Overempathizing and gender bias uncovered
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Overempathizing and gender bias uncovered

Credit: Yutong Liu & Kingston School of Art / Better Images of AI / Talking to AI / CC-BY 4.0 You can talk...

Research challenges idea that bias is a technical flaw
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Research challenges idea that bias is a technical flaw

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers challenge the widespread belief that AI-induced bias is a technical flaw, arguing instead that AI is deeply influenced...

How America’s war on ‘ideological bias’ is letting AI off the leash
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How America’s war on ‘ideological bias’ is letting AI off the leash

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Badly behaved artificial intelligence (AI) systems have a long history in science fiction. Way back in 1961, in the...

Novel ‘pruning’ technique shows promise for reducing AI bias without harming performance
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Novel ‘pruning’ technique shows promise for reducing AI bias without harming performance

Illustration of the pruning-based bias mitigation method. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.07771 A method known as “model pruning” can be used to pinpoint...

New AI framework aims to remove bias in key areas such as health, education and recruitment
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New AI framework aims to remove bias in key areas such as health, education and recruitment

Local optimal solutions obtained using the decision tree as underlying classifier for the Adult problem in validation (left) and test (right) sets. Gray...