A Look at Google's Efforts to Earn Public Trust Through ML Fairness and Responsible AI

For years, we've been hearing about major AI initiatives in international enterprises. Companies afraid of being left behind in the AI revolution pushed its implementation a whopping 270 percent from 2015 to 2019, according to Gartner report that surveyed more than 3,000 executives in 89 countries. Along with industry, AI is also enabling our modern smart homes, and has even found its way into gaming and leisure activities. AI's increasing presence has attracted no small amount of criticism, and often with good reason. Last year, an AI-powered "DeepNude" web project that enabled users to remove peoples' clothing in images (trained mostly on women) drew sharp criticism and was taken down by developers. A few months ago "Genderify," an AI-powered tool designed to identify a person's gender by analyzing their name, username or email address, triggered a backlash on social media and was also shut down.