Now Is The Time To Act To End Bias In AI

As we've entered the infancy of the AI age, the fallacy in this thinking has revealed itself in some spectacular ways. Google's first generation of visual AI identified images of people of African descent as gorillas. Voice command software in cars struggled to understand females, while working just fine for males, putting women's safety in jeopardy. During the 2016 presidential election, Facebook's algorithms spread fear-stoking lies to its most vulnerable users, allowing a foreign power to meaningfully swing the election of the most powerful office in the world. Even efforts to make AI palatable for consumers have revealed bias.