When prompting DALLE to visualize good and bad men we are not confronted with strong racial biases as feared and when we search for a terrorist we have no race associated to it. Sigh! Way to gain hope in humanity and the future of AI. I ran a few tests but not enough from a scholar to have a statistically significant outcome. In the case for women, however, the bias does not seem racial as much as it is a status bias. Wealthier women seem to have better luck at passing the AI judgement of goodness while poorer, underdressed women making faces look bad in the lens of AI.

Racism is a poison in our society, one which until recently, AI was thought immune to. Underlying this is the notion that AI are incapable of conscious thought, so they cannot consciously discriminate. However, much like humans can have unconscious bias, so can AI. Over the last decade there have been countless examples of racial bias displayed in AI algorithms, or AI learning racism through machine learning. As a mixed-race individual, I want to know where AI has been racist and why this was the case.