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https://www.vox.com/science-an...casio-cortez-ai-bias
Recently, newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made this point in a discussion at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event in New York City.
“Algorithms are still made by human beings, and those algorithms are still pegged to basic human assumptions,” she told writer Ta-Nehisi Coates at the annual MLK Now event. “They’re just automated assumptions. And if you don’t fix the bias, then you are just automating the bias.”
The next day, the conservative website the Daily Wire derided the comments.
But Ocasio-Cortez is right, and it’s worth reflecting on why.
If we’re not careful, AI will perpetuate bias in our world. Computers learn how to be racist, sexist, and prejudiced in a similar way that a child does, as computer scientist Aylin Caliskan, now at George Washington University, told me in a 2017 interview. The computers learn from their creators — us.
“Many people think machines are not biased,” Caliskan, who was at Princeton at the time, said. “But machines are trained on human data. And humans are biased.”