Unintended Machine Learning Biases as Social Barriers for Persons with Disabilities
Ben Hutchinson, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Remi Denton, Kellie Webster, Yu Zhong, Stephen Denuyl · 2020 · SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing
This paper from Google's Ethical AI team provides concrete empirical evidence that widely deployed NLP models encode measurable biases against people with disabilities, creating social barriers through technology. The authors examine three layers of bias using a perturbation…
machine learning bias · NLP · toxicity detection · sentiment analysis · disability representation