Bias in ML, and Teaching AI

Yesterday I gave a super duper high level 12 minutes presentation about some issues of bias in AI. I should emphasize (if it's not clear) that this is something I am not an expert in; most of what I know is by reading great papers by other people (there is a completely non-academic sample at the end of this post). This blog post is a variant of that presentation. Structure: most of the images below are prompts for talking points, which are generally written below the corresponding image. I think I managed to link all the images to the original source (let me know if I missed one!). Automated Decision Making is Part of Our Lives To me, AI is largely the study of automated decision making, and the investment therein has been growing at a dramatic rate. The last time I taught this class was in 2012. The amount that's changed since there is incredible.