unintended bias

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Sometimes people have specific prejudices, classes of things or people they do not like , or have preconceived ideas about. This bias might eb deliberately buit into systems, for example, denying entry toa. country based on religion. However, bias may alos arise unintentionally in AI systems, for example through {[unconscious bias}} in training data, or differing base rates.

Used on Chap. 20: pages 489, 493; Chap. 23: page 565