Lawyers strive for fairness and justice in every case they handle. However, the behavioral science research shows that human reasoning in legal contexts is inherently flawed and vulnerable to both ...

With more companies embracing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, it’s no surprise that unconscious bias has come to the forefront. Inherent in corporate cultures, unconscious bias (also ...

If you've been online much recently, chances are you've seen some of the fantastical imagery created by text-to-image generators such as Midjourney and DALL-E 2. This includes everything from the ...

Source: Adobe stock image by GoodIdeas, licensed by Ravi Chandra We all have biases, we can minimize or even overcome them by being aware of them. There is a spectrum of bias from unconscious ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, media labels such as “Wuhan virus,” “China virus” and “Chinese virus” to refer to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, fueled the stigmatization of people of Asian ...

Ever since Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky formalized the concept of cognitive bias in 1972, most empirical evidence has given credence to the claim that our brain is incapable of improving our ...

A few years ago, UC Berkeley public health scholar Ziad Obermeyer found that an algorithm that affected health care for millions of patients routinely gave wealthier, white patients better access to ...

The scenario: You're preparing for a job interview. The stakes feel high. You want — you need — this job. So you do what millions of people now do: you ask an AI chatbot for advice on salary ...

Deep learning models seem to prefer marketing to responsible research. For example, I just asked Gemini "How long does it take for an illiterate adult to learn to read?" The first response seemed to ...