Raluca Crisan was declared the winner of the Women in AI Awards 2020 ( Deva Senevirathne and Suvi Uski , found elsewhere on this list , were runners-up ). Crisan ’ s company , Etiq AI , develops software to identify and mitigate algorithmic bias , with a view to preventing the extension of existing societal inequalities to scalable technology platforms . In her own words : “ Whether it ’ s in policing , recruitment or financial products , people ’ s lives are impacted by automated decisions on a daily basis . The algorithms behind these decisions are often biased , biased against women , biased against minorities , biased against old people . ETIQ ’ s mission is to tackle the algorithmic bias problem .”

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