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How do people in the field deal with bias?

Voxpop showing how people in the field dealt with cases of bias.

In the previous steps, you have learned what bias is and how it can affect the trustworthiness of an AI system. It can cause AI systems to produce prejudiced results and can affect the trustworthiness of an AI system. To learn whether this actually occurred in real life practices, we turned to people in the field and asked them a few questions about their experience.

We asked several experts to explain if they encountered bias and how they dealt with it. Do you understand their reasoning? Could you think of alternatives to the way in which they dealt with the particular types of bias they encountered? Discuss your ideas with fellow learners in the discussion section.

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