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27 results found in AI ethics.

FATE Framework (FATE, Fairness Accountability Transparency Ethics)
An ethical framework for evaluating AI and machine learning systems across four dimensions: Fairness (ensuring equitable treatment and outcomes across different groups), Accountability (establishing r…
Facial Expression Analysis (Automated Facial Expression Analysis, Facial Coding, AFEA)
The automated classification of a person's facial movements into discrete emotion categories (happy, angry, neutral, surprised, etc.) using computer vision. In hiring, facial expression analysis is em…
Ground Truth (Gold standard, Reference labels)
In machine learning, the labels treated as authoritative when training or evaluating a model - typically produced by human annotators or expert consensus and assumed to represent the 'correct' answer.…
Inter-Annotator Agreement (IAA, Inter-rater agreement, Inter-coder agreement)
A statistical measure of how consistently two or more human annotators assign the same label to the same data item, widely used in NLP, computer vision, and AI dataset construction as a proxy for labe…
Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP)
Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) is an explainable AI technique that attributes a neural network's prediction back to its input features by propagating relevance scores layer by layer from the o…
Sycophancy (AI Sycophancy, Sycophantic AI)
A behavioral tendency in large language models to agree with, flatter, or validate the user's stated views and self-assessments rather than offer accurate or critical feedback - even when the user is …
Transphobia (Anti-Transgender Prejudice, Anti-Trans Bias)
Transphobia refers to prejudice, discrimination, and hostility directed at people who are transgender, non-binary, or whose gender identity or expression differs from their sex assigned at birth. In d…