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Pangram’s Quest to Quantify AI in Writing Faces Trust and Bias Tests
technology1 month ago

Pangram’s Quest to Quantify AI in Writing Faces Trust and Bias Tests

WIRED profiles Pangram, a small Brooklyn AI-detection startup that scores how much a text is AI-generated using synthetic mirroring and hard negative mining. After high-profile AI-writing controversies and a Substack integration, Pangram markets itself as a trusted arbiter of originality across publishing and education, but critics warn of false positives and systemic biases against non-native writers, while the company stresses transparency and ongoing refinement.

via WIRED|
#ai-detection#authenticity#bias
Future Fossils Could Misread Evolution, Study Finds
science1 month ago

Future Fossils Could Misread Evolution, Study Finds

The researchers created a future fossil record by starting with thousands of living mammals and removing evidence based on fossilization biases, then tried to reconstruct their evolution. The reconstructed history diverged dramatically from the real world, showing that the fossil record is biased toward certain sizes, diets, and habitats, so future scientists could misread the past.

via ZME Science|
#bias#evolution#fossilization
Big Amygdala, Subtle Bias: Brain Structure and Our Reactions to the Unknown
science1 month ago

Big Amygdala, Subtle Bias: Brain Structure and Our Reactions to the Unknown

Neuroimaging links larger amygdala and stronger responses to unfamiliar faces with conservative leanings and threat sensitivity, but large replication studies show the effect is small and not diagnostic; the amygdala may function as a significance detector rather than a fear center, habituation reduces responses to known faces, and cross-group contact generally reduces prejudice, suggesting biology partly influences discomfort with difference but isn’t destiny.

via Space Daily|
#amygdala#bias#conservatism
AI Hiring Could Sideline Midlife Women
technology2 months ago

AI Hiring Could Sideline Midlife Women

BBC reports that AI-powered recruitment tools may disadvantage women aged 40–65 returning to work, with many experiencing automated rejections or no responses after numerous applications. Experts warn AI can overlook transferable skills from career breaks, reinforcing gendered ageism and risking large-scale job displacement for mid-career women unless there’s more regulation, transparency, and retraining opportunities.

via BBC|
#ageism#ai#bias
AI-written stories fool readers into thinking they're human
technology2 months ago

AI-written stories fool readers into thinking they're human

A Villanova University-led study (published via Cambridge University Press) compared three human-authored short stories with three AI-generated ones. In multiple experiments involving over 1,600 participants (plus groups of 424 and 481), readers often couldn’t reliably distinguish AI from human writing and frequently rated AI-generated stories highly when they were told they were human, revealing a bias that AI creativity is now harder to separate from human craft. Participants with higher AI literacy were better at spotting AI text, while general literary expertise didn’t help as much; AI prose tended to be clearer and more direct, whereas human writing remained subtler and more complex.

via BBC|
#artificial-intelligence#bias#literature
Red States Dominate CNBC’s ‘Worst Places to Live’ Ranking, Sparking Bias Debate
business2 months ago

Red States Dominate CNBC’s ‘Worst Places to Live’ Ranking, Sparking Bias Debate

CNBC’s 2026 quality-of-life ranking lists Arkansas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Missouri, Utah, Georgia, Louisiana, Indiana, Texas and Tennessee as the bottom 10 states to live in, all Republican-led, prompting critics to allege liberal bias in the criteria despite ongoing population growth in several of those states. The ranking factors include crime, air quality, healthcare, childcare, inclusiveness, and reproductive rights, with some commentators arguing the metrics unfairly penalize conservative policy environments.

via New York Post|
#bias#business#cnbc
White House Report on Smithsonian Draws Fire for Biased History
politics3 months ago

White House Report on Smithsonian Draws Fire for Biased History

An op-ed argues the White House’s 160-page report accusing the National Museum of American History of “ideological capture” is itself biased and selective, misreading evidence on race and immigration, and aimed at enforcing a single celebratory narrative of American exceptionalism, while praising the Smithsonian for presenting diverse perspectives and prompting critical questions about the nation’s past.

via The Washington Post|
#bias#history#immigration
Global study reveals subtle left-turn bias in human movement
science3 months ago

Global study reveals subtle left-turn bias in human movement

An international study published in Nature Communications finds people show a modest but consistent bias to turn left (counterclockwise) when walking, persisting across cultures, spaces, and even solo experiments. The bias is stronger in younger participants and does not depend on dominant hand, sex, or eye movement; researchers ruled out explanations like the Coriolis effect or large-scale forces, pointing to a possible biomechanical basis. The finding could influence the design of evacuation routes and crowd-flow planning in airports, museums, stadiums, and other crowded spaces, with future work including VR testing and cross-species comparisons.

via ScienceAlert|
#bias#biomechanics#crowd-management
Brains Predict Before Perception: How We Classify the World in Real Time
science5 months ago

Brains Predict Before Perception: How We Classify the World in Real Time

Neuroscientists Lisa Feldman Barrett and Earl Miller argue that the brain constructs categories on the fly through predictions before sensory input, meaning we infer what we’re seeing (like a cat) based on past experience, bodily signals, and language. This predictive view challenges bottom-up ideas of perception and ties bias, beginner’s mind, and even mental-health concepts to how we categorize the world.

via Nautilus | Science|
#bias#brain#categorization