Bias is not the machine’s opinion.

Shape domain · human dimension · intermediate level

Target competency — Recognize that an AI system reproduces regularities present in its data, and identify their effects on real decisions.

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A company uses an AI tool to sort job applications. Two files show equivalent experience, equivalent degrees, equivalent skills. One of them contains an eighteen-month interruption for maternity leave. The tool systematically ranks that file lower.