Did you know that if you do an image search for 'person' the results contain twice as many men as women?

In this episode we investigate why this is the case by looking at bias and how it has permeated our online world, and in particular, search engines. Search engines now have the power to influence how we see the world,  guiding us towards some content over others, catering to our interests based on our internet history.

Guests this week include:

- Riham Satti and Vivek Doraiswamy, who are the CEO and CTO of MeVitae, a company that attempts to detect and overcome cognitive biases using new technologies- Jahna Otterbacher, an Assistant Professor at the Open University in Cyprus- Paul Clough, Professor of Information Retrieval in the Information School at the University of Sheffield

Music in this episode is 'Quitting Time' by Patrick Lee.

For further reading see: http://www.machinemindspodcast.com/2017/07/02/episode-1-search-engines-and-bias/