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AI Bias & Fairness
AI systems can perpetuate and amplify societal biases present in training data. Understanding, measuring, and mitigating bias is critical for responsible AI deployment. Formal fairness metrics (demographic parity, equalized odds, predictive parity) famously conflict: satisfying all of them at once is mathematically impossible in most real settings.
Key terms
Training data biasAlgorithmic fairnessDisparate impactFairlearnDemographic parityEqualized odds
Where you meet it in the real world
Hiring algorithms, criminal justice, lending decisions, healthcare
Videos
▶ Algorithmic Bias in AI: What It Is and How to Fix It ↗
IBM Technology · YouTube
▶ Unraveling AI Bias: Principles & Practices ↗
IBM Technology · YouTube
Guides and articles
Courses, papers, and more