Artificial Intelligence Can Be Just as Biased as Humans

Google "construction worker" images and you'll see a lot of stock art, of men carrying lumber and standing in front of excavators with their arms crossed--even the Village People, if you scroll down far enough. But you'll have to search for something like "construction worker woman" to find more females in hard hats, including photos that look more like inspiration for a sexy Halloween costume. See the woman pulling her pigtail, two traffic cones on her chest a la Madonna? Or the one wearing a tight, low-cut top, hammer raised, hand on her hip? A few years ago, a team of researchers at the University of Washington wondered how image search results for occupations like construction worker and receptionist represented gender.