Bias in AI: A problem recognized but still unresolved – TechCrunch

There are those who praise the technology as the solution to some of humankind's gravest problems, and those who demonize AI as the world's greatest existential threat. Of course, these are two ends of the spectrum, and AI, surely, presents exciting opportunities for the future, as well as challenging problems to be overcome. One of the issues that's attracted much media attention in recent years has been the prospect of bias in AI. It's a topic I wrote about in TechCrunch (Tyrant in the Code) more than two years ago. The debate is raging on. At the time, Google had come under fire when research showed that when a user searched online for "hands," the image results were almost all white; but when searching for "black hands," the images were far more derogatory depictions, including a white hand reaching out to offer help to a black one, or black hands working in the earth.