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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

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