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Video: Does bias in artificial intelligence exist?

A black person is less likely than a white person to pay off their loan on time. A person called John will make a better programmer than Mary. These aren’t our opinions at all, but in fact, are decisions made by Artificial Intelligence in the recent past.

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Harvey Bennett from Searchie and Pavel Nesterov from Reaktor discuss the existence of bias in artificial intelligence and debate on how it impacts businesses covering the following cases:

  • 12% of leading machine learning researchers are women
  • In May 2016 the US news organisation ProPublica reported that COMPAS is racially biased.
  • Financial algorithms for predicting loan repayment are regularly accused of being racist.
  • Google’s online advertising system showed high-income jobs to men much more often than to women.

Despite this, AI could contribute $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030.

(Source: Arabianbusiness.com YouTube channel)

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