hyderabad a class 12 student of oakridge international school ashug kumar gurijala won a global challenge by the new york academy of sciences for developing solutions to weed out biases in artificial intelligence ai systems and appshe along with four other students from different parts of the world worked on a project titled bias in ai systems and applications over a period of 10 weeks as part of the challenge the team had to develop solutions to address ai bias issues for one or more ai systems and applications the solution can include innovations andor alterations of existing technology and data collected from online open sourcesgurijala along with four other students from different parts of the world worked on a project titled bias in ai systems and applications over a period of 10 weekswith ai systems recognizing patterns in datasets biases in the datasets may be reflected on ai models as well in many cases the biased decisions made will have a high impact for example choosing whether a person will be hired or not the team suggested that bias must be eliminated in order for ai models to make fair decisions as part of the team i interviewed a professor in virginia tech for ai and took up surveys that were circulated among people engaged in ai our team came up with solutions that can give a holistic plan to weed out biases in ai systems and applications said gurijala the team came up with three primary solutions bias measuring and mitigation platform decentralised database and a guidebook that will enable developers and organisations to recognise implicit bias as a reward the team members will be given access to courses in new york university moving forward gurijala who is already researching independently in the field of ai plans to pursue higher education in the us in computer science