Sentences with phrase «of racial bias into»

Eight days after the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the arrests of two African - American men at a Philadelphia Starbucks for trespassing when they opted not to order anything has catapulted the issue of racial bias into the national spotlight.

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Because of this, people who fall into a gender, racial, or ethnic group that is likely to experience negative bias have found that downplaying that association can help them sidestep discrimination, behavior known as «covering.»

Victim of the Drug War's harsh mandatory sentencing, as well as possible racial bias and entrapment, the onetime Rams star is 20 years into a 41 - year jail term.

«There were only a handful of studies for each of the 19 instruments, and very few looked at anything that could give us insight into potential bias against racial or minority groups.»

In last year's round of defenses, Marwat Al - Olefi passionately explained — with persuasive statistics — what she learned in her study of racial biases in healthcare and explained why she wanted to «put all of her effort into this study» that was so motivating to her.

Alarie: issues with quality of current decision making; mitigate heuristics into algorithms; implicit bias of judges; you control the info that you expose the algorithm to, curate the information; still problems, things may be correlated with negative things, e.g. racial implications, that we don't want related; gender, etc. other human rights type things; how to cleanse it appropriately; self driving cars just need to be better than humans; i.e. don't hold them to the standard of perfection; short term gains to be had

There is absolutely no reason for this, and it's opening the employer up to allegations of racial discrimination — as well as making it more likely that it really will introduce unconscious bias into the initial sceening, because that's a real thing even in well - intentioned people and even when we don't realize it.