As humans we all have different forms of bias in the way we think and acts. Soem of these are based on fundamental cognitive processes, some perosnal experiences, and many a mix of the two. Cogniitve biases minclude automation bias, which can lead to an over reliance on machine outputs or decisons. The term also includes various forms of prejudice including racial or gender sterotypes. The latter are often embeddd into past human decison makin, for example in penal sentencing or credit assessment, which are then used as training data , one of the sources of bias in machine learning,
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