Artificial intelligence and sexism

Even though the first person who wrote an algorithm was a woman in the 19th century, artificial intelligence may be discriminating against women. Two centuries later, algorithms "have the ability to push us back decades" in gender parity, explains Susan Levy, a researcher at University College Dublin who is part of a project to prevent Artificial Intelligence algorithms from learning gender bias. "They can exacerbate toxic masculinity and the attitudes we have been fighting for decades in society," she adds. It algorithms themselves that are at fault, but the history of mankind. Artificial Intelligence (AI) learns from data that is made available, and most of it is biased, says Levy.