[cmancini]

Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, these are just ads, not some kind of sexist job board where you put in your gender and out comes a list of eligible jobs. Just yesterday the internet was mad that people were seeing ads and it was bringing the downfall of democracy. Why are we mad they are now not seeing ads?

Given the number of features in a model as sophisticated as Facebook's must be means these researchers are almost certainly oversimplifying, and certainly the way these articles are written as if to teach readers there's an evil software engineer writing biased code. From my experience in ML it's almost certainly the opposite--most of the data scientists I've worked with are highly aware of the issues of bias in AI and actively work against it to a sophistication level never understood by journalists.

[newacct583]

The article doesn't discuss culpability or root cause. It simply reports a study that shows the bias still exists. Surely you'd agree that part of the solution to bias in AI is awareness of what bias exists?