Christo Wilson

“ I suspect that Israel is paying a significant amount of money to have these ads appear consistently ,” says Christo Wilson, a computer scientist at Northeastern University and a co-author of the study. Since it seems unlikely that Google would sacrifice any of its profits by intervening in the matter, Wilson suggests that organizations involved in this type […]

These trackers could, for example, know if I looked up a health-related question on WebMD and use that data to tailor recommendations on Amazon, according to Christo Wilson, a computer science professor at Northeastern University.

The watching and tracking and palm-scanning actually doesn’t represent a big jump in Amazon’s data collection on its customers, says Christo Wilson, associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. Purchase history, web clicks, consumer preferences — “They already have this information,” he says. “It’s just being gathered now in kind of a new way.”

Christo Wilson, an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University, was hired by pymetrics to audit the platform for bias in 2020. Wilson and his team spent three months in 2020 analyzing the machine-learning input datasets, verifying that decisions passed the four-fifths rule (a rule of thumb established by the EEOC for organizations to evaluate […]

For another, perfectly balanced data sets don’t automatically translate into perfectly fair AI systems, says Christo Wilson, an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. 

“Apps were automatically taking screenshots of themselves and sending them to third parties,” sad Christo Wilson, a PhD student at Northeastern University, after examining multiple Android apps.