Computer scientists offer new techniques to measure social bias in software

Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 15:02 in Mathematics & Economics

Today, banks are increasingly using software to decide who will get a loan, courts to judge who should be denied bail, and hospitals to choose treatments for patients. These uses of software make it critical that the software does not discriminate against groups or individuals, say computer science researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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