CNBC: Silicon Valley is stumped – Even AI cannot always remove bias from hiring

“AI is not impartial or neutral,” said Meredith Whittaker, co-founder of the AI Now Institute at New York University, and founder of Google’s Open Research group. AI Now — which Whittaker co-founded with Kate Crawford, an NYU professor and principal researcher at Microsoft Research — aims to move beyond what it describe as “minimal oversight” of AI. Algorithmic bias is one of its core research areas.

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