Artificial Intelligence Is As Racist As Humans Are

Prominent voices of the tech world assume: not only AI might pose a threat to humanity, it also is racist and sexist. Since the AI machines learn from real people, they are very likely to adopt the same behavioral patterns, which may further be spreading inequality in the workplace, at home and in our legal and judicial systems. Take a small example from last year: Users discovered that Google's photo app, which applies automatic labels to pictures in digital photo albums, was classifying images of black people as gorillas. Google apologized; it was unintentional. It is mainly a data problem.