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Three Kinds of Bias

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Bias enters deployed systems through three channels — social bias learned from data, cognitive biases of humans in the loop, and statistical skew in the datasets.

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A screener trained on past hires; an officer trusting the score over contrary documents; a pile collected only from smartphone users — one channel each.

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Automation over-trust is a bias about the system that compounds the system's own.

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