AI Professor Details Real-World Dangers of Algorithm Bias [Corrected]

However quickly artificial intelligence evolves, however steadfastly it becomes embedded in our lives--in health, law enforcement, sex, etc.--it can't outpace the biases of its creators, humans. Kate Crawford, a Microsoft researcher and co-founder of AI Now, a research institute studying the social impact of artificial intelligence, delivered an incredible keynote speech, titled "The Trouble with Bias," at Neural Information Processing System Conference on Tuesday. In Crawford's keynote, she presented a fascinating breakdown of different types of harms done by algorithmic biases. As she explained, the word "bias" has a mathematically specific definition in machine learning, usually referring to errors in estimation or over/under representing populations when sampling. Less discussed is bias in terms of the disparate impact machine learning might have on different populations.