AI Bias And The 'People Factor' In AI Development

In AI and machine learning programs, discrimination is caused by data. Oscar Wilde once argued that life imitates art more than art imitates life. Strangely, that's proving to be the case when it comes to AI development – but not in the way some had hoped. On Star Trek: The Next Generation, the android Data was constantly endeavoring to evolve its programming to become more human. That's how AI works in our world now, as systems have advanced to the point where people are starting to envision what a workforce augmented by robots might look like.