What Developers Really Think About AI And Bias

StackOverflow recently asked 100,000 developers to participate in a 30-minute, wide-ranging survey that hits on just this. It's worth noting that the developers themselves were every bit as homogenous as you might expect–93% male, 74% white, 93% heterosexual, about half between the ages of 24 and 35. But their answers are a revealing look into how people writing code think about AI–namely, that they're concerned about its impact on society. This year we saw many designers offering a mea culpa, admitting that they were responsible for dark patterns and other manipulative bits of UI that shape human behavior in bad ways. So what do the surveyed developers think about their own role in creating tech, including AI?