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DATDAT-003 — Data Bias and Fairness Oversights

Demeaning social groups — case from Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction

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

Executive Summary

Demeaning of social groups to occur when they are when they are “cast as being lower status and less deserving of respect"... discourses, images, and language used to marginalize or oppress a social group...

Domain

Data Management

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

Source

MIT AI Risk Repository — Sociotechnical Harms of Algorithmic Systems: Scoping a Taxonomy for Harm Reduction (Shelby2023) ↗

https://airisk.mit.edu/

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