Three Platforms Where AI Bias Lives

In late 2018, Google made the decision to prevent its "Smart Compose"--a feature that predicts what users intend to write in emails and auto-completes sentences--from suggesting gender-based pronouns such as "him," "her," and "their." Why? Google feared that the tool was biased and would be prone to suggesting incorrect gender-based pronouns. The change was prompted by a Google research scientist who typed "I am meeting an investor next week" and witnessed Smart Compose suggest the following follow-up question: "Do you want to meet him?" The investor in question was female.