Something that law firms should be looking at when developing AI both for inhouse reasons and for clients. ABC Australia reports…..
Artificial intelligence, far from being a rarefied utopian intervention, may turn out to be no more than the sum of its very human parts — most of them male.
That’s the slightly apprehensive view of Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men.
Speaking to RN’s Blueprint for Living, Criado Perez made a “garbage in, gender bias out” case for the fallibility of AI.
“You would hope that artificial intelligence would improve things,” she says. “Humans are so notoriously biased, you would hope that computers would be better.
“But unfortunately humans are the ones making the algorithms, and humans are the ones feeding those algorithms data: we are creating biased algorithms based on biased data.”
Rather than improving the world by extracting historical gender biases, machine learning, it turns out, is further entrenching discrimination.
Whether it’s voice recognition software unable to detect the female voice, or algorithms that preference male CVs, big data is introducing new forms of gender bias.
Of course, data bias is nothing new; according to Criado Perez, “most of recorded human history is one big data gap”.
“The stories we tell ourselves about our past, present and future,” Criado Perez writes, “are all marked — disfigured — by a female-shaped ‘absent presence’.”
The gender data gap has shaped the very fabric of our built world and the implications are profound.
Read the full article at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-07/why-artificial-intelligence-further-entrenching-discrimination/11473604
