Americans Need A Bill Of Rights For An AI-Powered World - AI Summary

We've seen what's possible by gathering large amounts of data and training artificial intelligence to interpret it: computers that learn to translate languages, facial recognition systems that unlock our smartphones, algorithms that identify cancers in patients. Data sets that fail to represent American society can result in virtual assistants that don't understand Southern accents; facial recognition technology that leads to wrongful, discriminatory arrests; and health care algorithms that discount the severity of kidney disease in African Americans, preventing people from getting kidney transplants. Hiring tools that learn the features of a company's employees can reject applicants who are dissimilar from existing staff despite being well qualified--for example, women computer programmers. Mortgage approval algorithms to determine credit worthiness can readily infer that certain home zip codes are correlated with race and poverty, extending decades of housing discrimination into the digital age. Training AI indiscriminately on internet conversations can result in "sentiment analysis" that views the words "Black," "Jew," and "gay" as negative.