Artificial intelligence is also hailed as a tool to promote fairness but as AI finds greater use in industry, social spheres and daily life, it is facing scrutiny over biases that can creep into algorithms that power it. The tech industry believes that artificial intelligence (AI) offers enormous opportunities to benefit humanity but the key is ethical deployment. There is a possibility that human biases influence algorithms and result in discriminatory outcomes. We need to ensure that AI algorithms do not reflect and propagate bias, causing unintended harm. While technologists are optimistic about AI, results of machine learning (ML) models can be affected by data that amplifies biases found in the real world like race or gender.

As it goes mainstream, artificial intelligence faces increased scrutiny.