This online game wants to teach the public about AI bias

Artificial intelligence might be coming for your next job, just not in the way you feared. The past few years have seen any number of articles that warn about a future where AI and automation drive humans into mass unemployment. To a considerable extent, those threats are overblown and distant. But a more imminent threat to jobs is that of algorithmic bias, the effect of machine learning models making decisions based on the wrong patterns in their training examples. A online game developed by computer science students at New York University aims to educate the public about the effects of AI bias in hiring.