MIT 6.S191: AI Bias and Fairness

MIT Introduction to Deep Learning 6.S191: Lecture 8
Algorithmic Bias and Fairness
Lecturer: Ava Soleimany
January 2021

Lecture Outline
0:00​ - Introduction and motivation
1:40 - What does "bias" mean?
4:22 - Bias in machine learning
8:32 - Bias at all stages in the AI life cycle
9:25 - Outline of the lecture
10:00 - Taxonomy (types) of common biases
11:29 - Interpretation driven biases
16:04 - Data driven biases - class imbalance
24:02 - Bias within the features
27:09 - Mitigate biases in the model/dataset
33:20 - Automated debiasing from learned latent structure
37:11 - Adaptive latent space debiasing
39:39 - Evaluation towards decreased racial and gender bias
41:00 - Summary and future considerations for AI fairness

Subscribe to stay up to date with new deep learning lectures at MIT, or follow us @MITDeepLearning on Twitter and Instagram to stay fully-connected!!

[anshusingh]

Today while AI systems are grappling with biases that can impact real lives, this topic is so important. It was very well delivered. Thanks :)

[AshokTak]

I love how AI community is learning about this problem and solution for debiasing the models especially popular models in computer vision and NLP!

[nintishia]

This is not just a state-of-the-art balanced overview of the area, rather the depth of the speaker that comes from researching the area clearly shows. Thanks particularly for the algorithmic solutions part. I am curious about whether the learnt latent structure part has been further developed. Also whether training the variational layer in the autoencoder conflicts with the resampling approach in some way.

[harshkumaragarwal]

I loved the cancer detection example. Thanks for the lecture :))

[bitsbard]

For those keen on this subject, you won't regret diving into "Game Theory and the Pursuit of Algorithmic Fairness" by Jack Frostwell. It was a delight to read.

[chanochbaranes]

Another amazing video, if I wish to continue with deep learning what and where should I learn?

[busello]

Great contribution. Clear. Useful. Thank you!

[lukeSkywalkwer]

Thanks so much for putting this online!
I was wondering how the underlying distribution (frequency of values the z can take) can be estimated from the latent variables z ? (around 35:51) I mean, it's not as trivial as the distribution of z being identical to the distribution z takes in the training data, right?

[lotfullahandishmand]

Thanks for your contribution and doing great work to let people to know and have latest information and knowledge about Deep learning.
can we have some format with more practical and challenging problem which AI Community can go through apart from these labs, it was just a proposal.
Thanks again, KEEP GOING Ava and Amini

[AbhishekSinghSambyal]

Awesome lecture. How do you create such presentations? Which app?

[macknightxu]

any courses on privacy-preserving when using Deep Learning?

[BitBard]

This book is turning heads "Game Theory and the Pursuit of Algorithmic Fairness" by Jack Frostwell

[macknightxu]

Awesome courses.
And where can I find the something like these labs projects to have a try AI and Deep Learning which matches this series of MIT Deep Learning courses?

[kruan]

Great video! 8:06 I don't the COCO graph is accurate, there are lots of training and application of AI in China, with their own database. Most of the time Chinese just do these kinds of research secretly.

[TheWayofFairness]

All of our problems begin with unfairness

[mehdidolati]

Who disliked the video before it begins and why?!

[terraflops]

@Alexander Amini
1. the watermelon example was excellent
2. as a transgender person, CNNs are adversarial to my gender as the models are based *only* on *cisgender* people (need for more disaggregated evaluation)
3. I don't like CNNs, and don't practice making them, as all examples and datasets are boring to me and simply binary. Talking about gender bias is also biased because transgender humans exist and gender-neutral terms exist but you would never know it in any tech/coding lecture. I am sure MIT has Transgender people in their school