Resources
Support your learning through our searchable research library and discover valuable resources about many topics in artificial intelligence and data analytics, such as AI ethics, bias and data tools.
Select the We Count at Large tag to view a selection of speaking engagements and presentations by IDRC team members. Many of these resources showcase the efforts of IDRC Director Jutta Treviranus, whose pioneering work and insights in AI and inclusive AI continue to inspire and lead the field.
Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
- Expert
A new paper explores AI chains of thought (CoT) as an avenue for AI safety.
Challenges Facing Data Science in 2020 and Four Ways to Address Them
- Intermediate
An overview of Anaconda's recommendations for organizations in their 2020 State of Data Science report.
Challenges for Mitigating Bias in Algorithmic Hiring
- Intermediate
The exploration of policy issues, a review of techniques in AI screening and legal implications all form the focus of this article.
Challenging Algorithmic Profiling: The Limits of Data Protection and Anti-discrimination in Responding to Emergent Discrimination
- Expert
From large data sets, the authors examine algorithmic profiling as a process of knowledge construction. They observe the complex categories that result in structural discrimination for disadvantaged groups, a process they call emergent discrimination. They have used a post-colonial lens to draw attention to the (in)visibilities to counteract instances of marginalization. They offer a number of recommendations to informs proactive design and ethical processes in advancing algorithmic profiling.
Changing Landscape of Recruitment Industry: A Study on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Eliminating Hiring Bias from Recruitment and Selection Process
- Expert
The research examines how AI has changed the process of recruitment and selection and grapples with whether it will be able to dispense with unconscious bias in the hiring process. The study points to the potential of AI to nullify biases encountered in the hiring process.
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
The text of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
ChartSense: Interactive Data Extraction from Chart Images
- Expert
This paper presents ChartSense, an interactive chart data extraction system that determines the chart type of a given chart image using a deep learning based classifier and then extracts underlying data from the chart image using extraction algorithms optimized for each chart type.
Chatbots Learned to Write from Us. Can AI Now Change the Way We Think?
- Intermediate
LLMs often reflect and reinforce dominant cognitive styles while marginalizing alternative voices and reasoning strategies, which will, over time, homogenize language and thought processes.
City of Brantford's Policy Manual for Accessibility
Brantford's Policy Manual for Accessibility.
City of Burlington's Corporate Accessibility Policy
Burlington's Corporate Accessibility Policy.