Events for “bias”

The UN says Israel is targeting Palestinian children. Here’s why the ‘bias’ defence doesn’t hold up

The dehumanizing language used by Israeli officials reflects and enables an underlying disregard for Palestinian life that connects to the findings of the recent June 2026 UN Commission of Inquiry report.

AI encouraging racist stereotypes? 3 out of 5 chatbots tested promote bias

Is Artificial Intelligence encouraging racist stereotypes? Internet users have noticed that Gemini, Google's AI assistant, suggests very different advice when they say they are alone with someone, depending on their nationality. Our colleagues at France 2 report.

Multilingual Verifier Bias in RLVR: Benchmark, Rollout Diagnosis, and the Cross-Lingual Selection Bottleneck

arXiv:2608.20362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a standard recipe for training large language models on mathematical reasoning, where an answer verifier serves as a language-neutral reward function. We show that this assump

Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role

Article URL: https://tucker.wales/writing/bias-towards-action/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49491714 Points: 165 # Comments: 66

How Technology-Assisted Surveillance Promotes Racial Bias in Policing

Policing and incarceration in the twenty-first century are not wholly human practices. The strategies, tactics, and encounters that organize the carceral state are developed and prosecuted in collaboration with inhuman technologies that “we” do not and cannot fully understand. In

The Divergence Hypothesis: Unmasking Lexical Interference and Label Bias in Mental Health NLP

arXiv:2608.20353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Computational mental health (CMH) classifiers often degrade under distribution shift because human annotators and distant-supervision pipelines reward different linguistic signals. We introduce TSS (Triple-Stream Stress probe), a mu

Who Do Language Models Think Is Competent? A Mechanistic Analysis of Occupational Bias

arXiv:2608.20347v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models (LMs) often pass behavioral bias evaluations, but it remains unclear whether they no longer represent the underlying associations that give rise to biases, or have merely learned not to express them. In this study, w

Karnataka: Opposition targets Information Department over ‘biased’ Assembly coverage

ED taking up cases with political motive and bias, claims CPI(M) Keralam secretary M.V. Govindan

He says financial misappropriation charges against BJP leaders are not being pursued. ED first sets a political target and then start the investigation to find evidence, Govindan adds

Federal US judge faces complaint over staunch pro-Israel advocacy

A lawyer has accused Judge Roy Altman, who calls the keffiyeh a 'terror scarf', of anti-Palestinian bias in his remarks.

Lit Hub Daily: August 24, 2026

How surveillance technology infuses policing with even more racial bias. | Lit Hub Politics Why studying Goldilocks can help us write emotionally resonant fiction. | Lit Hub Craft Claire Boyles considers the impact of the American West’s water crisis on her

W. Kamau Bell has the most practical ‘most indispensable tool’

W. Kamau Bell is one of those people who has always just seemed to be there. From Totally Biased, to Politically Re-Active, United Shades of America, and We Need to Talk About Cosby, his blend of comedy, social commentary, and political activism has helped him stand out. He's won

'I didn't speak the Queen's English': Why people worry about their accents

A survey on attitudes towards accents suggests that so-called "accent bias" is still an issue in many workplaces.