Just like humans, artificial intelligence can be sexist and racist

Machine learning is one of the biggest drivers of artificial intelligence technology at present. Algorithms within machine learning applications have been able to write code, play poker, and are being used in attempts to solve cancer. Yet, there is a bias problem. Using the popular GloVe algorithm, trained on around 840 billion words from the internet, three Princeton University academics have shown AI applications replicate the stereotypes shown in the human-generated data. These prejudices related to both race and gender.