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Machine learning researchers are teaching neural networks how to superficially judge humans — and the results are pretty brutal.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Create “Deliberately” Biased AI That Judges You as Brutally as Your Mother-in-Law

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers probing Twitter's controversial image-cropping algorithm found that it's prejudiced in more ways than previously thought.

Artificial Intelligence

Twitter’s Image-Cropping Algorithm Was Shockingly Racist, Ableist, Ageist

By Dan Robitzski

MIT permanently deleted a massive dataset used for training AI after learning that it was full of racist and sexist slurs.

Artificial Intelligence

MIT Deletes Database That Taught AI to Be Racist, Sexist

By Dan Robitzski

The artificial intelligence system Microsoft uses to post articles to MSN recently confused two women of color, showing how algorithmic bias is happening.

Artificial Intelligence

Robot Journalist Accused of Racism

By Dan Robitzski

Google is reportedly ending its controversial program where it scanned homeless people's faces and turned them into AI training data.

Google Decides to Stop Training AI on Homeless People’s Faces

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial Intelligence

Steve Wozniak Says the Apple Card Discriminated Against His Wife

By Dan Robitzski

The AI used by the UK government to review people's passport photos contains built-in biases against people with darker skin. The gov. deployed it anyway.

Artificial Intelligence

The UK Knew Its Passport AI Was Racist — and Used It Anyway

By Dan Robitzski

AI built to detect hate speech online, including a widely-used tool built by Google, tends to flag tweets written by black people as toxic more often.

Google’s Hate Speech-Detecting AI is Biased Against Black People

By Dan Robitzski

A new algorithmic tool can determine if artificial intelligence is biased and then go in and retrain the system to treat people more equitably.

Artificial Intelligence

A New Algorithm Trains AI to Erase its Biases

By Dan Robitzski

How Google Challenged Coders to Make AI More Culturally Aware

How Google Challenged Coders to Make AI More Culturally Aware

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence agents in a simulated environment developed became biased against dissimilar agents without any outside influence.

Artificial Intelligence

Left Unchecked, Artificial Intelligence Can Become Prejudiced All On Its Own

By Dan Robitzski

To Build Trust In Artificial Intelligence, IBM Wants Developers To Prove Their Algorithms Are Fair

Artificial Intelligence

To Build Trust In Artificial Intelligence, IBM Wants Developers To Prove Their Algorithms Are Fair

By Dan Robitzski