Artificial Intelligence is pale male data-in, pale male data-out, says computer scientist Joy Buolamwini
Buolamwini’s research illuminates a concern about the role that racism and bias has in the field of artificial intelligence. In the United States activists have raised concerns over wrongful arrests that have been attributed to faulty AI facial recognition. AI technology is becoming increasingly better at reasoning, learning, understanding language, recognising images and making independent decisions.
The reality is that this technology despite its advancements still needs to be perfected. However there is no guarantee that AI systems will be fixed or modified in this way. Given the endless false data, negative stories, fabricated information, pseudoscience, propaganda and ideological information that exists about Black people online, should it be surprising that AI technology would be racist?