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Are U.K. Police Biased Against White Victims?

The death of a student who was handcuffed as he lay dying from multiple stab wounds has sparked a debate in Britain over whether efforts to stamp out racism in policing have swung...

A Stanford Study Exposes Massive Racial Bias in AI Hiring Tools Used by 90 Percent of Businesses

Researchers warn that a growing ‘algorithmic monoculture’ is locking qualified minority candidates out of the job market.

Detecting Bias in Generative AI

Generative AI inherits the biases of its training data, and most users don't notice.

SCOTUS Ruling, Federal Focus on DEI Fueling Reverse Bias Claims, Lawyers Say

A recent lawsuit by a Delta Air Lines employee alleges the carrier's diversity, equity and inclusion program advanced unqualified minorities and failed to hold them to the same saf...

Data Bias

AI models have a religion favoritism problem, and new research exposes it

Researchers tested 14 major AI models on religious bias and found a consistent pattern: models subtly favor some faiths over others, with Grok showing the strongest bias and Anthro...

Racial bias in schizophrenia diagnosis must end

A young Black woman waits in a psychiatric emergency room. She is grieving, traumatized, and depressed. The clinician, however, describes her as “guarded,” “hostile,” and “paranoid...

PIP’s proximity to plaintiff’s EEOC charge can’t save bias complaint, 3rd Circuit says

A Black former BNY employee failed to show that his placement on a performance improvement plan was the result of race-based discrimination.

Colorado’s AI Anti-Bias Hiring Law Is Effectively Dead. That’s A Problem For Black Job Seekers

A federal court has paused a Colorado law that aims to stop AI from discriminating.

Justice Sotomayor Torches 'Wrong' Conservative Court Over Racial Bias: 'Double Standard'

A Black man sits on death row in Mississippi, convicted by a jury of 11 white people and one Black juror — and now a Supreme Court justice says the far-right state court that keeps...

Illinois pushes back against Trump in move to ban disparate impact bias

Practices such as strength tests or criminal background checks have been the subject of disparate impact challenges in the past.

Testing racial predictions with BISG

      Regulators expect insurance companies, banks, and others not to discriminate by race, but businesses are not allowed to collect the race of their customers. One solution fo...

The Unconscious Bias That Fails Black Creators

Yet Another Hit on Blacks and Hispanics—Parking Ticket Targeting

*We can add yet another term to the never-ending pantheon of the targeting of Blacks and Hispanics in South Los Angeles—and elsewhere. That is parking ticket bias. When you think o...

How a hiring algorithm is audited can disguise bias, study finds

Modern recruiting is marked by an “algorithmic monoculture” in which only a small number of vendors supply applicant screening algorithms, Stanford researchers said.

Defensible Decisions: When AI Generates Bias in the Workplace [Podcast]

It's Not Biased if It's Against Jews

Jon Michaels & Matthew Segal, Tablet Magazine Earlier this month, a federal district court judge in New York gave us a sneak peek at how the U.S. legal system might resolve w...

Is Accent Bias the Last Acceptable Form of Prejudice?

Judging people based on how they speak is wrong—but also very common.

CALIBRATION NOTE (Bias Admission): Victimizationing

When someone self-professes as a victim, my suspicion alarms sometimes start too early, set to a cautionary low-drone.Continue reading on Medium »

Study Finds Black Supervisors May Help Reduce Bias In Hiring Evaluations

Despite decades of diversity initiatives, Black professionals continue to face significant barriers in the workplace, from hiring discrimination and slower promotion rates to racia...

Rassismusvorwürfe in UK: Eine lange Geschichte von Polizeiversagen

Lange Zeit stand die Polizei in England unter Rassismusverdacht. Seit kurzem wirft man ihr eher „Two-Tier Policing“ zum Nachteil von Weißen vor. mehr...

‘Deep-seated’ bias for male child persists despite improving sex ratio, says Supreme Court

The top court refused to quash criminal proceedings against a Maharashtra doctor under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 19...

UC Davis favored less qualified Black, Latino med school applicants, Justice Department claims

The U.S. Justice Department said an investigation by its Civil Rights Division found racial bias in admissions at UC Davis' School of Medicine.

One woman, 30 applicants: Hiring fairly under a microscope

A police chief reflects on rooting for the only woman in a command-level hiring process and the steps leaders can take to keep bias — positive or negative — from influencing the ou...