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Artificial Intelligence Has Race, Gender Biases (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The ACLU has begun to worry that artificial intelligence is discriminatory based on race, gender and age. So it teamed up with computer science researchers to launch a program to promote applications of AI that protect rights and lead to equitable outcomes. MIT Technology Review reports that the initiative is the latest to illustrate general concern that the increasing reliance on algorithms to make decisions in the areas of hiring, criminal justice, and financial services will reinforce racial and gender biases. A computer program used by jurisdictions to help with paroling prisoners that ProPublica found would go easy on white offenders while being unduly harsh to black ones.
Besides, we as their creator are flawed beings so inherently, our creations will be also flawed.
I'm not sure this is a flaw. If the data shows a gender or race bias, the AI will reflect that. Some biases based on gender and race exist, regardless of what the PC version of existence is. You can call it unfair, but not inaccurate.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
What are they calling "bias"?
We read constantly about so-called racism based merely on the fact that one race objectively exhibits a particular trait over other races.
That's called data, not bias.
Ok, let's start with the fundamentals. What exactly is 'race' here? You may think that's obvious, but all people have their own mixture of ancestors, so how are you going to sort everyone objectively into bins? If you can't do that, how are you going to objectively determine the traits of these supposed bins?
Rather than race, think of it as "culture". It's why first and second generation African immgrants vastly exceed 3+ generation African Americans in terms of economic and scholastic success. American black culture is the issue, not prejudice against blacks in general. Biases against blacks are because of the prevalent US black culture creating the dominant image of what a black person is. We have cultural biases, not racial biases... It's not DNA - it's culture.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
You are suggesting that the AI program not only keeps track of race, but that it also uses race as a factor in making it's decision.
That's a pretty harsh accusation.
The reality is that i these situations, the race only becomes a factor when analyzing the data and you include race as a data point after the fact.
That's how you get "disparate out", one of the more evil principles in the SJW tool box.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.