Implicit bias (also known as "unconscious bias") is a personal association about a person or group of people that impacts those around us. Implicit bias creates barriers to inclusion, performance, engagement, and innovation. Becoming aware of different biases and learning skills and strategies to counteract them can mitigate their impact on building inclusive workplaces.
Leaders play a vital role in recognizing implicit biases as obstacles to building inclusive workplaces. Through awareness, self-reflection, curiosity, allyship, and role-modeling, leaders can mitigate the impact of implicit bias on fair and equitable decision-making in organizations. Leaders have the unique opportunity to recognize and tackle how implicit bias shapes organizations and individual employees.
of White people had a pro-White or anti-Black implicit bias, according to thousands of bias tests.
of Black people showed a pro-White or anti-Black bias in the same tests.
AI systems have the potential to move the needle on workplace inclusion by using more objective criteria while recruiting and promoting talent. However, evidence indicates that humans are programming their own biases into the algorithms behind AI. Organizations must take the necessary steps to prevent bias in AI talent systems.
