{"id":494,"date":"2022-03-04T16:37:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/?page_id=494"},"modified":"2025-03-04T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T20:35:10","slug":"homework-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/assignments\/weekly-exercises\/homework-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Homework 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Due by classtime on Week 10.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choose one of the following reports about bias in AI and answer these questions, using the knowledge we gained in class about how engineers train neural nets for machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What was the input data that trained the model?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How did the process work (in broad strokes; you don&#8217;t need to be too detailed)?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What \u201clatent variables\u201d produced bias in the outcome? That is, what part of the data caused the model to produce bias?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is the process salvageable?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Submit your response via the assignment in BruinLearn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reports of bias in AI<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkup.org\/prediction-bias\/2021\/12\/02\/crime-prediction-software-promised-to-be-free-of-biases-new-data-shows-it-perpetuates-them\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/themarkup.org\/denied\/2021\/08\/25\/dozens-of-mortgage-lenders-showed-significant-disparities-here-are-the-worst\" target=\"_blank\">Dozens of Mortgage Lenders Showed Significant Disparities. Here Are the&nbsp;Worst<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1367177\/if-ai-is-going-to-be-the-worlds-doctor-it-needs-better-textbooks\/\" target=\"_blank\">If AI is going to be the world\u2019s doctor, it needs better textbooks<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing\" target=\"_blank\">Machine Bias: There\u2019s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it\u2019s biased against blacks<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-algorithm-favored-whites-over-blacks-health-care\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Health Care Algorithm Offered Less Care to Black Patients<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due by classtime on Week 10. Choose one of the following reports about bias in AI and answer these questions, using the knowledge we gained in class about how engineers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/assignments\/weekly-exercises\/homework-8\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homework 6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":142,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-494","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":914,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/494\/revisions\/914"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/is270w25\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}