To Make AI Less Biased, Give It a Worldview

One of the most difficult emerging problems when it comes to artificial intelligence is making sure that computers don't act like racist, sexist dicks. As it turns out, it's pretty tough to do: humans created and programmed them, and humans are often racist, sexist dicks. If we can program racism into computers, can we also train them to have a sense of fairness? Some experts believe that the large databases used to train modern machine learning programs reproduce existing human prejudices. To put it bluntly, as Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford did for the New York Times, AI has a white guy problem.