Topic: human-AI interactions

Human decision-making biases are pervasive, influencing areas such as finance, law and medicine. Reliance on Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems has been offered as a solution to reduce such systematic errors. However, in judgments ranging from perception to emotion, AI systems can also exhibit biases themselves. For example, a hiring algorithm used by Amazon was inevitably trained to favor men over women and an algorithm used in US hospitals to estimate the need for additional medical care favored white patients over black patients. While the danger of biased algorithms automating and perpe