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Building fairness into AI is crucial – and hard to get right

  • Written by Ferdinando Fioretto, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Virginia
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Artificial intelligence’s capacity to process and analyze vast amounts of data has revolutionized decision-making processes, making operations in health care, finance, criminal justice and other sectors of society more efficient and, in many...

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