How Diversity Can Remove Cultural Bias from Artificial Intelligence - Thrive Global

Human beings are naturally predisposed to cultural bias. Found in all human sciences -- including economics, psychology, and anthropology -- cultural bias is defined as "the process of judging and interpreting phenomena by standards inherent to one's own cultural preferences or by norms of a particular culture." Cultural bias is why in some cultures averting eye contact can be interpreted as being evasive or shy, and in other cultures, a sign of respect. It's why people born in Argentina likely wear jerseys that honor Lionel Messi unlike their football peers across the Atlantic who revere Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo. Why soup slurping in Korea is the norm, when it can be considered bad table manners elsewhere.