DeepMind Is Working on a Solution to Bias in AI

DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet (Google's parent company) is working to remove the inherent human biases from machine learning algorithms. The increased deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms into the real world has coincided with increased concerns over biases in the algorithms' decision making. From loan and job applications to surveillance and even criminal justice, AI has been shown to exhibit bias – particularly in terms of race and gender – in its decision making. Researchers at DeepMind believe they've developed a useful framework for identifying and removing unfairness in AI decision making. Called Causal Bayesian Networks (CBNs), these are visual representations of datasets that can identify causal relationships within the data and help experts identify factors that might be unfairly weighed against or skewing others.