To advance understanding of the human gut microbiome, research must prioritize accurate, unbiased and comprehensive microbial measurements. In real-life practice, gut microbiome research findings are ...

With more companies embracing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts, it’s no surprise that unconscious bias has come to the forefront. Inherent in corporate cultures, unconscious bias (also ...

Biased population samples pose a prevalent problem in the social sciences. Therefore, we present two novel methods that are based on positive-unlabeled learning to mitigate bias. Both methods leverage ...

Affinity Bias: We all have a natural tendency to gravitate toward people similar to us in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age and lifestyle. This unconscious bias can lead us to hire people who look ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools used in medicine, like AI used in other fields, work by detecting patterns in large volumes of data. AI tools are able to detect these patterns because they can ...

We all have biases. They’re our brain’s way of reducing the energy it takes to deal with the terabytes of information thrown at us every day. We connect the dots, fill in the gaps with stuff we ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) usage has grown, the potential of bias in AI has gained more attention, as evidenced by Google Trends data (Figure 1). A recent study 1 by Herrera-Berg et al. (2023) ...