It’s easier to program bias out of a machine than out of a mind.
That’s an emerging conclusion of research-based findings — including my own — that could lead to AI-enabled decision-making systems being less subject to bias and better able to promote equality. This is a critical possibility, given our growing reliance on AI-based systems to render evaluations and decisions in high-stakes human contexts, in everything from court decisions, to hiring, to access to credit, and more.
It’s been well-established that