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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.
Since race is a purely made up and subjective concept it simply shouldn't be used as a factor in the data AI or algorithms use to make decisions. I suspect the issue here is the opposite, there is no reverse racism being built into the algorithms. Frankly, there shouldn't be as the algorithm results disprove a great deal of the justification for reverse racist policies both corporate and legal.