(COLLEGE FIX) -- Two professors from Stanford University argued recently in an article that A.I., or artificial intelligence, can be “sexist and racist” and that the technology community needs to implement “systematic solutions” to counteract this threat.
James Zou and Londa Schiebinger note in an article on Stanford’s website that, in some instances, Google Translate can change pronouns from female to male. As well, “Software designed to warn people using Nikon cameras when the person they are photographing seems to be blinking tends to interpret Asians as always blinking.” Additionally, “Word embedding, a popular algorithm used to process and analyse large amounts of natural-language data, characterizes European American names as pleasant and African American ones as unpleasant.”
