Real-Life Examples
Discover how AI fairness issues appear in real life through examples like skin cancer diagnosis, automated job screening, and the COMPAS recidivism risk model. Understand the effects of biased training data on different groups and the societal importance of addressing these fairness challenges.
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Before we introduce new concepts and formalize AI fairness, let’s start with some examples to get some intuition. Our reasoning will be simplified but don’t worry—we will dive deeper during the course.
Skin cancer detection
Skin cancer can be a severe condition. Many people have skin marks that, at some point in life, can evolve into dangerous ones. However, if diagnosed early, it is mostly curable. However, a dermatoscopy performed by a doctor is required, which might not be accessible to all people. There are self-diagnostic criteria (like ACBDE, as shown in the ...