DATDAT-003 — Data Bias and Fairness Oversights
Algorithmic Systems Encoding Discriminatory Beliefs About Social Groups
3/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: OperateIngested: —
Executive Summary
AI systems reproduce unjust societal hierarchies by embedding discriminatory beliefs about social groups into automated outputs and decisions. Organisations face legal exposure under equality legislation and reputational damage when such harms are traced to deployed algorithmic systems.
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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