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Bias in Artificial Intelligence: Why we need more India-centric AI

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All faces are not considered equal by Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems! A typical commercial AI face recognition system most accurately predicts fair-skinned males. The accuracy for detecting dark-skinned women is lower by over 30 percentage points, says Joy Buolamwini, Founder, Algorithmic Justice League. AI computer vision systems will appropriately classify and label the image of a bride in a typical western gown. However, when it was asked to classify the image of an Indian bride wearing a red sari, it is classified as an event, a costume or performing art.