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Fairness and accountability are two essential pillars for trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare. However, the existing AI model may be biased in its decision marking. To tackle this issue, we propose an adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xiaoxiao Li , Ziteng Cui , Yifan Wu , Lin Gu , Tatsuya Harada

Recently there are increasing concerns about the fairness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in real-world applications such as computer vision and recommendations. For example, recognition algorithms in computer vision are unfair to black…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haochen Liu , Jamell Dacon , Wenqi Fan , Hui Liu , Zitao Liu , Jiliang Tang

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly of tremendous interest in the medical field. However, failures of medical AI could have serious consequences for both clinical outcomes and the patient experience. These consequences could erode…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Thomas P. Quinn , Manisha Senadeera , Stephan Jacobs , Simon Coghlan , Vuong Le

With the rapid advancement of AI, there is a growing trend to integrate AI into decision-making processes. However, AI systems may exhibit biases that lead decision-makers to draw unfair conclusions. Notably, the COMPAS system used in the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Chih-Cheng Rex Yuan , Bow-Yaw Wang

As machine learning algorithms have been widely deployed across applications, many concerns have been raised over the fairness of their predictions, especially in high stakes settings (such as facial recognition and medical imaging). To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Valeriia Cherepanova , Vedant Nanda , Micah Goldblum , John P. Dickerson , Tom Goldstein

Among the most damaging characteristics of the covid-19 pandemic has been its disproportionate effect on disadvantaged communities. As the outbreak has spread globally, factors such as systemic racism, marginalisation, and structural…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-05-18 David Leslie , Anjali Mazumder , Aidan Peppin , Maria Wolters , Alexa Hagerty

AI-based systems are widely employed nowadays to make decisions that have far-reaching impacts on individuals and society. Their decisions might affect everyone, everywhere and anytime, entailing concerns about potential human rights…

The increasing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into medical diagnostics necessitates a critical examination of its ethical and practical implications. While the prioritization of diagnostic accuracy, as advocated by Sabuncu et…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Myles Joshua Toledo Tan , Panayiotis V. Benos

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly employed to enhance assistive technologies, yet it can fail in various ways. We conducted a systematic literature review of research into AI-based assistive technology for persons with visual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Zahra Ahmadi , Peter R. Lewis , Mahadeo A. Sukhai

In this paper, we deal with bias mitigation techniques that remove specific data points from the training set to aim for a fair representation of the population in that set. Machine learning models are trained on these pre-processed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Manh Khoi Duong , Stefan Conrad

Machine learning models are becoming pervasive in high-stakes applications. Despite their clear benefits in terms of performance, the models could show discrimination against minority groups and result in fairness issues in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Mingyang Wan , Daochen Zha , Ninghao Liu , Na Zou

It is widely accepted that biased data leads to biased and thus potentially unfair models. Therefore, several measures for bias in data and model predictions have been proposed, as well as bias mitigation techniques whose aim is to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Marco Favier , Toon Calders , Sam Pinxteren , Jonathan Meyer

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) decision-making and autonomous systems became an integrated part of the economy, industry, and society. The evolving economy of the human-AI ecosystem raising concerns regarding the risks and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Daniel Muller

Most research on fair machine learning has prioritized optimizing criteria such as Demographic Parity and Equalized Odds. Despite these efforts, there remains a limited understanding of how different bias mitigation strategies affect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Natasa Krco , Thibault Laugel , Vincent Grari , Jean-Michel Loubes , Marcin Detyniecki

Ensuring fairness in AI systems is critical, especially in high-stakes domains such as lending, hiring, and healthcare. This urgency is reflected in emerging global regulations that mandate fairness assessments and independent bias audits.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Varsha Ramineni , Hossein A. Rahmani , Emine Yilmaz , David Barber

This paper looks at philosophical questions that arise in the context of AI alignment. It defends three propositions. First, normative and technical aspects of the AI alignment problem are interrelated, creating space for productive…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Iason Gabriel

The widespread integration of AI technologies has intensified concerns about fairness and bias, as these systems often perpetuate societal inequalities through flawed data and design choices. While software engineering research has largely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ronnie de Souza Santos , Maria Teresa Baldassarre , Cleyton Magalhaes

AI technologies have the potential to dramatically impact the lives of people with disabilities (PWD). Indeed, improving the lives of PWD is a motivator for many state-of-the-art AI systems, such as automated speech recognition tools that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Anhong Guo , Ece Kamar , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan , Hanna Wallach , Meredith Ringel Morris

Systems that augment sensory abilities are increasingly employing AI and machine learning (ML) approaches, with applications ranging from object recognition and scene description tools for blind users to sound awareness tools for d/Deaf…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Leah Findlater , Steven Goodman , Yuhang Zhao , Shiri Azenkot , Margot Hanley

The debate around bias in AI systems is central to discussions on algorithmic fairness. However, the term bias often lacks a clear definition, despite frequently being contrasted with fairness, implying that an unbiased model is inherently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chiara Lindloff , Ingo Siegert