Week 5 - Trustworthy & Efficient AI Part II

Required Reading (Week 5 Pre-Class Quiz)

• Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
• Machine Bias, ProPublica, May 23, 2016
• Bias In Medicine: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Aug 18, 2019
• Fitbits and other wearables may not accurately track heart rates in people of color, Stat News, July 24, 2019
• We should treat algorithms like prescription drugs, Quartz, Feb 14, 2019

What-Why-How Paper Highlight

Optional Reading

• AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair
• Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes
• AI could worsen health disparities, New York Times, Jan 31, 2019
• Fairness and machine learning