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AI oversight, bias & failure · Specialist

Algorithmic bias

ELI5

Systematic unfair or distorted outcomes arising from data, design, deployment or social context.

Used in conversation

“The review flagged the algorithmic bias in the way the people or material were represented.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Algorithmic bias” in accessibility, localisation, ethics & ai conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains access, language adaptation, care, provenance and emerging synthetic-media responsibilities.

Connected terms

  • Automation biasAlgorithmic bias is systematic skew in a system or its outcomes; automation bias is a human tendency to over-trust automated output.
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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.