Software official calls for algorithm bias safeguards following implosion of House privacy bill

A key tech industry stakeholder says a unified national policy is still needed to address bias in artificial intelligence systems, preferably through legislation, after congressional efforts on a major digital privacy bill collapsed last week.

Sponsors had already removed civil rights and algorithm language before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on June 27 canceled a markup of the American Privacy Rights Act amid opposition from Republican leadership and major business groups. Civil and digital rights organizations also ...