Comprehending algorithmic bias and strategies for fostering trust in artificial intelligence

Title

Comprehending algorithmic bias and strategies for fostering trust in artificial intelligence

Creator

Menon U.S.; Siby T.; Natchimuthu N.

Description

Fairness is threatened by algorithm bias, systematic and unfair disparities in machine learning results. Amazon's AI-driven hiring tool favoured men. AI promised data-driven, impartial decision-making, but it has revealed sector-wide prejudice, perpetuating systematic imbalances. The algorithm's bias is data and design. Biassed historical data and feature selection and pre-processing can bias algorithms. Development is harmed by human biases. Algorithm prejudice impacts money, education, employment, and crime. Diverse and representative data collection, understanding complicated "black box" algorithms, and legal and ethical considerations are needed to address this bias. Despite these issues, algorithm bias elimination techniques are emerging. This chapter uses secondary data to study algorithm bias. Algorithm bias is defined, its origins, its prevalence in data, examples, and issues are discussed. The chapter also tackles bias reduction and elimination to make AI a more reliable and impartial decision-maker. 2024, IGI Global. All rights reserved.

Source

Digital Technologies, Ethics, and Decentralization in the Digital Era, pp. 286-305.

Date

2024-01-01

Publisher

IGI Global

Coverage

Menon U.S., Christ University, India; Siby T., Christ University, India; Natchimuthu N., Christ University, India

Rights

Restricted Access

Relation

ISBN: 979-836931763-1; 979-836931762-4

Format

Online

Language

English

Type

Book chapter

Identifier

https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-1762-4.ch014

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