Teaching students about bias in AI
Slides by Annette Vee, University of Pittsburgh, CC NC-BY license (you're free to use non-commercially with acknowledgment).
Bias: Joy Buolamwini's work
MIT PhD and Media Lab affiliate Joy Buolamwini has led research on the ways that AI image recognition is biased.
AI, Ain't I a Woman? (great 2.5 min video to teach students about AI bias)
Ted Talk on bias in algorithms
A podcast interview with Dr. Buolamwini, "Your Undivided Attention"
Book: Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines
Documentary, Coded Bias
Context: Sojourner Truth's speech, 1851
"Ain't I a Woman?" is a speech, generally considered to have been delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth (1797–1883), born into slavery in the state of New York. Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827, she became a well known anti-slavery speaker. Her speech was delivered at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851, and did not originally have a title.
"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me!..."
Bias: Jill Rettberg's work
University of Bergen, https://www.uib.no/en/cdn/169806/erc-wants-see-what-shapes-stories-ai-tells-us
AI Image generation
A good way to teach bias, model differences, and also fun
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Popular LLMs that generate images for free
Paid apps:
Midjourney's idea of university professors
Gemini's idea of a university professor
Canva's idea of a university professor
ChatGPT's idea of a university professor
Sept 2024
Feb 2025
Feb 2025
Anyone want to guess what an engineering professor looks like to ChatGPT?
Feb 2025