A.I. Systems Echo Biases They’re Fed, Putting Scientists on Guard
Is the problem that AI is biased? Or is the problem that AI <i>lacks</i> the biases that we expect people to have?<p>For instance, people have detected that AI models associate technical words with men more often than women and point to this as evidence of bias. I would argue that this is the opposite situation. There&#x27;s social stigma attached to acknowledging differences between groups, so people have developed biased against acknowledging those differences. The AI on the other hand sees that 70-80% of technologists are men, and associates accordingly. So the problem isn&#x27;t that the AI is biased it&#x27;s that it lacks the biases we expect.<p>Now, there are good arguments why this bias may be a good thing. Unbiased does not automatically mean good.