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What is algorithmic bias?

  • A.The preference of a learning algorithm for simpler hypotheses
  • B.The tendency of a search algorithm to explore one branch first
  • C.Systematic unfairness in a system's outputs across groups of people
  • D.The statistical bias of an estimator away from the true value

Answer: C

A system trained on historical data reproduces the patterns in it, including discriminatory ones, and can amplify them, so its outputs differ systematically across groups in ways that are unjust. It is a social harm arising from a technical process. Estimator bias, inductive bias and search order are all legitimate technical uses of the word bias and none of them is this. Distinguishing the technical senses from the social one prevents a great deal of confused discussion.

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