The Algorithm That Helped Google Translate Become Sexist

StitchFix CEO Katrina Lake posted this on Twitter on the day of her company's IPO in 2017. Automated translation is using the same kind of models for suggesting words that are sometimes laced with bias. Parents know one particular challenge of raising kids all too well: teaching them to do what we say, not what we do. A similar challenge has hit artificial intelligence. As more apps and software use AI to automate tasks, a popular data-backed model, called "word embedding," has also picked up entrenched social biases.