Up to 3500 dollars | Twitter offers rewards to those who find the bias of its algorithms

It’s hard to find biases in machine learning models, and sometimes companies find they’ve unintentionally broken ethics only after they’re deployed. We want that to change.

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Rumman Chowdhury and Jutta Williams, two executives at Twitter

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In the model developed for detecting security vulnerabilities, researchers and hackers alike have helped IT security managers “establish best practices for identifying and managing vulnerabilities in order to protect the public,” say Rumman Chowdhury and Jutta Williams .

“We want to develop a similar community” to detect the biases of algorithms.

Twitter presented in April its work in progress to make more ethical the algorithms that are at work behind the scenes of the platform, a way of responding to criticism of the dangers associated with these technologies.

The social network had a few weeks later given up on an algorithm cropping the photos, having discovered that it was notably slightly biased in favor of white people.

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