Posts for the Topic fairness

Would AI gun dectectors protect US schools?

Tuesday, August 7, 2018 by Cameron Shelley

In a recent piece in FastCompany, Jeremy Hsu discusses the pros and cons of a system called Shielded Students, which relies on a high-tech gun detection system to prevent shooters from getting into schools.

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Is ShotSpotter good for Toronto?

Friday, July 27, 2018 by Cameron Shelley

The news came in quick succession this week. First, Toronto was considering adoption of the ShotSpotter gunshot detection system. Then, Toronto had decided to adopt it. As the latter article pointed out, after a spate

Fair algorithms

Friday, March 31, 2017 by Cameron Shelley

An interesting piece by Matt Reynolds in New Scientist describes work that aims to make algorithms fair. A team of computer scientists at the Alan Turing Institute in London defines a fair algorithm as follows:

[a fair algorithm is] one that makes the same decision about an individual regardless of demographic background.

Is that baby monitor fair?

Thursday, February 23, 2017 by Cameron Shelley

A brief article in the Journal of the American Medical Association raises a significant issue related to app-enabled baby monitors. Bonafide et al. draw attention to the increasing popularity of wearables for infants that supposedly monitor their health status and report it to parents via their smartphones.

The alcohol patch

Friday, November 25, 2016 by Cameron Shelley

When you hear the term alcohol patch, what do you think of? An imaginary place more adult than the Cabbage Patch? Wrong! A patch that slowly releases alcohol into your bloodstream? Getting warmer!

As Mike Hanlon describes it in New Atlas, the ONUSblue alcohol patch is a sensor that rests on a person's skin and monitors their blood alcohol level: