Biden Administration Focuses on Equity in New Artificial Intelligence Efforts

The federal Department of Education on May 23 released an “Insights and Recommendations” report on artificial intelligence in education, part of a suite of Biden administration announcements that stress what they see as the need for “equity” in AI.
“The department holds that biases in AI algorithms must be addressed when they introduce or sustain unjust discriminatory practices in education,” the  report reads.
It doesn’t clarify whether the agency believes there’s such a thing as a “just discriminatory practice”—for example, affirmative action that may discriminate against groups in educational admissions, the focus of a major upcoming Supreme Court decision….}