35c3 Chaos West Vortragende: pascoda
I am a CS student and an activist for students' rights, privacy, and social justice.
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Bei gleicher Qualifikation werden Männer bevorzugt - Algorithmic Bias & der österreichische Arbeitsmarkt
As algorithms are involved or even solely responsible for more and more decisions in our daily lives, there is more and more discussion about algorithms being unfair, biased, even straight-on discriminatory.
The Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS) announced in October that they would start using an algorithmic system (in short, every-day language "algorithm") to decide who will receive more (or less) benefits and support from their system. First analyses in the days after the announcement already predicted that the system would be discriminating against people who are already marginalise