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AI will reproduce and enshrine age-old biases--if we let it

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We shouldn't be worried only about whether robots will take our jobs, but about who is programming them--and with what values. Genevieve Bell is a cultural anthropologist who's spent the last two decades pondering the intersection of technology and culture, specifically focusing on the ethics of AI in her work at Intel. "I think the gravest dangers are we take the world we live in now and make it the world in perpetuity moving forward," Bell told me. "All the things about the current world that don't feel right is what the data reflects, where women aren't paid as much as men, where certain populations are subject to more violence, where we know that certain decisions get made in manners that are profoundly unfair. If you take all the data about the way the world has been and that's what you build the machinery on top of, then you get this world as our total future. I don't know about you, but I'd like something slightly different."