Language (Technology) is Power: A Critical Survey of “Bias” in NLP

What it is

Reviewed 146 papers on bias in language technology and found most never say who is harmed or how. Argues bias work has to start from real-world power relations, not just from a metric. Free on arXiv.

Why I recommend it

Read this if “bias” has started to sound like a box to tick. It is a careful takedown of shallow fairness work by people who do the work.

Topics

#ai ethics #ai-ethics #free #paper #reading #research #technology-and-ethics

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