Building trust in AI applications – Politics AI – Medium

All of us have seen those fear mongering headlines about how artificial intelligence is going to steal our jobs and how we should be very careful with biased AI algorithms. Bias means that the algorithm favors certain groups of people or otherwise guides decisions towards an unfair outcome. Bias can mean giving a raise only to white male employees, increasing criminal risk factors of certain ethnic groups and filling your news feed only with topics and point of views that you are currently consuming -- instead of giving a broad, balanced view of the world and educating you. It is important to be aware that a machine learning model can be biased, but this hardly opens up any new topics to the discussion of AI ethics compared to ethical decisions in general. White males are more likely to get a promotion anyways, court judges may get tired and hand out stricter verdicts and we tend to consume news that we agree with.