« Assessing the impacts of AI on human rights »
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The authors explore some critical human-rights concerns that accompany the use of algorithms which predict school dropout risk.
« If the bias in an algorithm creates distinctions among people based on prohibited grounds such as race, gender, social condition or disability, and people suffer adverse effects as a result, that is discrimination—which, of course, is prohibited under the Quebec and Canadian charters of rights and freedoms. »
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