'Whiteness' of A.I. could 'exacerbate racial inequality' says Cambridge Uni

Artificial intelligence (AI) has a'whiteness' that stops humanity associating people of colour with our technologically-advanced future. That's the message from a team of researchers who believe this will worsen racial inequality over time. University of Cambridge experts suggest current portrayals and stereotypes about AI risk creating a'racially homogeneous' workforce of aspiring technologists, creating machines with bias baked into their algorithms. The scientists say cultural depictions of AI as white need to be challenged, as they do not offer a'post-racial' future but rather one from which people of colour are simply erased. According to the researchers from Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), like other science fiction tropes, AI has always reflected racial thinking in society.