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DATDAT-003 — Data Bias and Fairness Oversights

Training Data Encodes Historical and Societal Bias into AI Models

4/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —

Executive Summary

AI models trained on historically biased data replicate and scale those biases in their outputs. Boards face regulatory exposure and reputational harm if deployed systems produce discriminatory decisions at scale.

Domain

Data Management

Blindspots in data quality, privacy, bias, lineage, lifecycle, and third-party data dependencies.

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — AI Risk Atlas (IBM2025) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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