AIMC Topic: Sexism

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Fairer AI in ophthalmology via implicit fairness learning for mitigating sexism and ageism.

Nature communications
The transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in various fields highlights the need for it to be both accurate and fair. Biased medical AI systems pose significant potential risks to achieving fair and equitable healthcare. Here, we show an...

Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence-Written Letters of Reference.

Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
OBJECTIVE: Letters of reference (LORs) play an important role in postgraduate residency applications. Human-written LORs have been shown to carry implicit gender bias, such as using more agentic versus communal words for men, and more frequent doubt-...

What's in a Name? Experimental Evidence of Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters Generated by ChatGPT.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT (OpenAI) have garnered excitement about their potential for delegating writing tasks ordinarily performed by humans. Many of these tasks (eg, writing recommendation letters) have social and...

identifies gender disparities in scientific peer review.

eLife
The peer review process is a critical step in ensuring the quality of scientific research. However, its subjectivity has raised concerns. To investigate this issue, I examined over 500 publicly available peer review reports from 200 published neurosc...

Propagation of societal gender inequality by internet search algorithms.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Humans increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) for efficient and objective decision-making, yet there is increasing concern that algorithms used by modern AI systems produce discriminatory outputs, presumably because they are trained on dat...

Gender Bias and Conversational Agents: an ethical perspective on Social Robotics.

Science and engineering ethics
The increase in the spread of conversational agents urgently requires to tackle the ethical issues linked to their design. In fact, developers frequently include in their products cues that trigger social biases in order to maximize the performance a...

Blinded intraoperative skill evaluations avoid gender-based bias.

Surgical endoscopy
INTRODUCTION: Gender bias has been identified consistently in written performance evaluations. Qualitative tools may provide a standardized way to evaluate surgical skill and minimize gender bias. We hypothesized that there is no difference in operat...

Use of artificial intelligence for gender bias analysis in letters of recommendation for general surgery residency candidates.

American journal of surgery
BACKGROUND: Letters of recommendation (LoRs) play an important role in resident selection. Author language varies implicitly toward male and female applicants. We examined gender bias in LoRs written for surgical residency candidates across three dec...

The Gender Gap Tracker: Using Natural Language Processing to measure gender bias in media.

PloS one
We examine gender bias in media by tallying the number of men and women quoted in news text, using the Gender Gap Tracker, a software system we developed specifically for this purpose. The Gender Gap Tracker downloads and analyzes the online daily pu...