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Bias in AI

tags:: #AI #NLP #bias projects::

  • Coded Bias is a 2020 documentary that explores the hidden biases embedded in AI systems and their implications on people's lives
  • The film follows MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini as she demonstrates the difficulty of AI facial recognition with dark-skinned faces, and features interviews with Harvard-connected researchers, including Zeynep Tufekci, Amy Webb, Cathy O'Neil, and Meredith Broussard.
  • Broussard is a data journalist and software developer who has written about how technology is misused and how "technochauvinism" has warped people's relationship to computers and each other.
  • She is also researching how AI intersects with race, gender, and ability in areas such as policing and cancer diagnosis
  • Building a more diverse pipeline to tech careers is essential to fixing AI's flaws, yet women and people of color remain underrepresented in the field

Citational Information

Bias in Artificial Intelligence (February 08, 2021). Available at: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/08/meredith-broussard-ai-bias-documentary (Accessed: 19 February 2023).

  • This problem has been exacerbated by the lack of diversity in the tech industry, which has been dominated by white males since its inception in the 1950s.
  • The film calls for a more diverse pipeline to tech careers, in order to help fix AI's flaws and create a fairer system for everyone. This is a call that has been echoed throughout history, as the presence of women and people of color in the tech industry has been largely ignored or underserved.