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3 - 6 December 2021

AI Bias Detection

AI Bias Detection

Champions: Al Jazeera, Reuters, AP, RTÈ, ETC/USC, Multichoice & Super Sports

With hundreds of thousands of hours of content being produced by, and for newsrooms daily, the quest to automate many labour-intensive and laborious physical tasks within production workflows continues to challenge broadcasters and news agencies.

Following on from the AI enabled Content Moderation Accelerator project of 2020, this Al Jazeera-led project, returns with a new challenge that is essentially a continuation of the theme of content moderation, focused on a topic of significant reputational value to broadcasters; how to detect, measure and flag bias in the representation and portrayal of diverse genders, cultures and ethnicities, to ensure fairness and transparency in news reporting?

The other key theme of the project will be to preserve and protect the fundamental notion of  neutrality, so sacred in news reporting to ensure that multiple perspectives are covered to ensure a balance to every story.

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What’s the Challenge Objective?

The Accelerator will utilise Artificial Intelligence and machine learning to automate the detection of bias in news coverage. The project aims to determine whether AI-Generated Metadata that currently helps a broadcaster like Al Jazeera search and discover content, can also help them to analyse and measure bias, raise flags and hold themselves accountable to their values.

The team will be focused on the ability to show diversity, to be fair and balanced as any news organisation strives to be. With 4 or 5 language broadcasts across multiple platforms and 24/7 news and programmes generated daily, being able to track and measure against diversity, editorial and regulatory standards is a real challenge for the Champions.

2021 Champions:

Aljazeera
ETC
RTE
AP
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Project Expertise Required?  

The team is looking for other (Champions) that find this topic and project interesting, and vendors (Participants) that have the AI expertise that they can support the goal, with the ability to measure using broadcasters’ content, which comes in multiple forms, articles or videos embedded in articles, the videos themselves, the broadcasts that go up on air.

This project requires specialist vendor expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning solutions and techniques. To get involved, register your interest below, or email the team accelerators@ibc.org    

Exhibitors include:

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