How many times have you seen an all-female and black and ethnic minority (BME) panel talking about technology? For many people their first time would have been the Shuri Network launch last July. The Shuri Network was launched in 2019 to support women of colour in NHS digital health develop the skills and confidence to progress into senior leadership positions and help NHS leadership teams more closely represent the diversity of their workforce.
Between Antidiscrimination and Data: Understanding Human Rights Discourse on Automated Discrimination in Europe
Automated decision making threatens to
disproportionately impact society’s most vulnerable
communities living at the intersection of economic and
social marginalization. The report discusses
Mapping a child's digital footprint across England's state education landscape. Policy recommendations for building a rights' respecting digital environment
Many of the public and private services we use are now digital. The move to digital is likely to increase as technology becomes more embedded in our lives. But what does this mean for how essential public services understand who is using, or indeed not using, them and why?
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Data about the protected characteristics of people using these services isn’t currently collected andstatistics aren’t published in a consistent or collective way. This means it is harder tofind out who is excluded from using these services and why.
How to make a chatbot that isn’t racist or sexist | MIT Technology Review
Tools like GPT-3 are stunningly good, but they feed on the cesspits of the internet. How can we make them safe for the public to actually use?
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Sometimes, to reckon with the effects of biased training data is to realize that the app shouldn't be built. That without human supervision, there is no way to stop the app from saying problematic stuff to its users, and that it's unacceptable to let it do so.