Interesting talk on bias from Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Our first speaker at the iSchool this fall offered an interesting overview of the forms and pernicious nature of bias on the web. Some examples were truly eye-popping (try the Google translator for English to Turkish) but others seemed to conflate the idea of bias with judgement which I’m still trying to unpack. Food for thought, here’s a flavor.

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