It is very telling when we will accept news as it is presented and when we expect sources to back up the information.

#CriticalThinking
#ConfirmationBias
#KnowledgeIllusion
#BiasBlindSpot
#biases
#biasDetection

🚨 If AI #discovery is the sports car, then #OpenAbstracts are the fuel.

Loss of abstracts from major publishers (Elsevier, SpringerNature…) means:
❌ weaker #AIDiscovery
❌ reduced #searchability
❌ setbacks for #OpenScience & #bibliometrics

At stake: not just tools, but researchers’ ability to scope, filter & save time.

👉 We need advocacy for open #metadata
👉 Researcher awareness of limits & #biases
👉 Higher #OpenAccess rates

https://open.substack.com/pub/aarontay/p/the-petrol-tank-for-ai-discovery

#libraries #AIResearch #scholcomm #AI

Large language models reflect #biases that can lead to inferior #healthcare advice to female patients & #minorities as they downplay their #symptoms; the uptake of #AI models could lead to biased medical decisions, reinforcing existing patterns of under-treatment… (1/2) www.ft.com/content/128e...

AI medical tools downplay symp...

The amount of fantastic points that CinemaWins makes on this video, are too hard to ignore. I've quoted so many portions to a friend tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVjXQo0q1_s

You don't need to see Part 1. This is a post-watch breakdown of why "Get Out" matters, and impacts, and why we should all be aware of implicit and explicit biases that play out on a regular basis. We all make mistakes, but it's about how we _learn_ from those mistakes.

#racism #biases

#Development #Analyses
Thoughts on the state of surveys · Biases and barriers in recent State of ___ surveys https://ilo.im/16653d

_____
#Surveys #Biases #Barriers #Accessibility #Usability #Browser #WebStandards #WebDev #Frontend

🤔
-healthy food,
-clean drinking water
-a clean, safe, and private space to live
-the means available to wash our clothing
-healthcare and access to medication
-comfortable bed for sleeping
-transportation
-heating and cooling
-access to the tech devices modern life now requires

If we have all that ⬆️ and I am listening to complaints about how terrible life is because we are missing out on anything else, I'm sorry but my empathy is feeling rather limited.

#Housing #Poverty #HumanRights #Entitlement #ClimateEmergency
#Economy #Discrimination #War #ClimateMigration #Biases

BOOK REVIEW The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World, by Jamil Zaki

Empathy seems to be an endangered social resource, and in a world where divisions seem to deepen versus lighten more each year, we need to flex those empathy muscles. It takes work, but is not impossible…

https://texantally.com/2025/07/28/book-review-the-war-for-kindness-building-empathy-in-a-fractured-world-by-jamil-zaki/

Surface Fairness, Deep Bias: A Comparative Study of Bias in Language Models https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10491
"… the estimation of socio-economic parameters shows substantially more bias than subject-based benchmarking. Furthermore, such a setup is closer to a real conversation with an AI assistant. In the era of memory-based AI assistants, the risk of persona-based #LLM bias becomes fundamental. Therefore, we highlight the need for proper debiasing method development and suggest pay gap as one of reliable measures of bias in LLMs
… various forms of #biases when salaries for women are substantially lower than for men, as well as drops in salary values for people of color and of Hispanic origin. In the migrant type category, expatriate salaries tend to be larger, while salaries for refugees are mostly low"

Surprise! These LLMs just replicate the empirical observations of #wages including any wage gaps that may be the result of discrimination that were part of their training data as salary recommendations. These cannot be proper recommendations, of course, they are just a stochastic auto-complete. The biases are real. But you will need tailor-made salary models to generate proper, unbiased salary benchmarks. A #llm is not enough.
#jobtech #LaborMarkets

The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/the-resume-is-dying-and-ai-is-holding-the-smoking-gun/
"Some candidates are now taking automation even further, paying for #AI agents that autonomously find jobs and submit applications on their behalf.
… Recruiters report that many of the résumés look suspiciously similar, making it more difficult to identify genuinely qualified or interested candidates.
… Beyond volume, fraud poses an increasing threat
… The frustration has reached a point where AI companies themselves are backing away from their own technology during the #hiring process
… Even when AI screening tools work as intended, they exhibit similar #biases to human recruiters, preferring white male names on résumés—raising legal concerns about #discrimination"
#jobtech #LaborMarkets

If you are conducting any #Qualatative #Research it's worth consideration of the various Response #Biases that Research Participants might be impacted by.

This information > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Response_bias - provides a useful high level overview of the various types of Response #Bias that can lead to participants responding inaccurately or falsely to questions and is worth reviewing against any planning documents or discussion guides you might be working on.

‘Suspicion by Design’

Our new report ‘Suspicion by Design: What we know about the #DWP's #algorithmic #BlackBox and what it tries to hide’ details the massive expansion of #AI, algorithm supported decision-making and #biases in the #benefits system.

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/welfare-data-watch/#report

#Orwellian #NotLabour #Surveillance #spying #BigData #PoliceState #SurveillanceState #DemocracyNOW #BigBrother

Noise and Bias: The Cognitive Roots of Economic Errors https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:lan:wpaper:423483206&r=&r=exp
"… formalizes the idea that decision makers might follow a mixture of rules of behavior combining cognitively imprecise value maximization and computationally simpler shortcuts.
… findings suggest that neither cognitive imprecision nor multiplicity of behavioral rules suffice to explain received patterns in economic decision making.… jointly modeling (cognitive) noise in value maximization and #biases arising from simpler, cognitive shortcuts delivers a unified framework which can parsimoniously explain deviations from normative prescriptions across domains."
#BoundedRationality #heuristics #ExperimentalEcon

Task, Context, Reference, Evaluate, Iterate

#TCREI there should (n-2) counts of #HITL

#hallucinations and #biases is the default assumption.

~10 hours of #promptengineering class from #google

There is a con somewhere with this word prediction overhype... I'm close, I can feel it.

#kopitiam #singlish #singapore

What did I learn from my one year back in school?

Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5270031

#HackerNews #ToxicOrigins #ToxicDecisions #CEOSelection #Biases #LeadershipInsights

🧠 Your Brain’s Secret Saboteurs: How Hidden Biases Hijack Your Decisions

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/17193110 


Thanks for listening today!

https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post/163969786
May 23, 2025 • (S4 34) • 54:38

You think you’re in control. You weigh pros and cons, mull over options, and make choices you’re sure are rational. But what if your brain is quietly betraying you?

#BehavioralScience #CognitivePsychology #DecisionMaking #ProspectTheory #Biases #MindHacks #Thinking #Psychology #HumanMind #Rationality

A discussion about shared knowledge, cognitive biases, group dynamics, and their influence our beliefs and decision-making, drawing on insights from some interesting read... as usual.

#Biases #sharedknowledge
#groupdynamics

https://giuseppevizzari.github.io/posts/2025/5/Biases-we-are

Hi ihr, ist jemand von Euch auch auf der
re:publica? Passe gerade meine Arbeit an, bin gespannt wie es wird.

@republica #GenXYZ #rp25 #stablediffusion #bias #biased #biases #aiart #installation #berlin

Human is still essential when evaluating other people, at the moment.

I believe there are CV hacks targeting LLMs. Adding preferred pronouns to CVs for example.

https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/the-strange-behavior-of-llms-in-hiring

#interview #LLM #biases

The Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Biases in Candidate Selection

https://davidrozado.substack.com/p/the-strange-behavior-of-llms-in-hiring

#HackerNews #LLMs #Hiring #Biases #SystemicBias #CandidateSelection

A 2021 paper in a pay-to-publish #Nature journal claimed #mindfulness tasks (notice 3 things around you or differences between 2 similar images) reduced some cognitive #biases: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00712-1

The mindful #debiasing was undetected in a re-analysis and 2 replications: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-025-02575-y