How to Stop AI from Unethical Biases Accenture

In the fall of 2018, the New York Times published a piece about an experiment in which they used an algorithm to produce Halloween costume ideas. The results were amusing: "baseball clown", "cat witch", "king dog." The algorithm combined random letters to make words, which it then compared to the set of real words in its training data. If it found a match, it kept the word and paired it with another one. In this example--and in many more serious ones like it--the algorithm was given pre-existing patterns and taught to replicate them.