How AI Learns to Be Sexist and Racist
If white-male biases get into AI, it could have repercussions for women or minorities, adding prejudice to hiring, promotions and salary decisions.
It won’t be long before someone reports a case of sexual harassment by an artificial intelligence.
Loutish AI behavior won’t reach the grotesque levels of a or Harvey , given that a software bot can’t exactly open its robe and demand a massage. But we’re entering an era when Siri-like conversational AI will be embedded in the workplace, listening and commenting from, say, speakers in conference rooms. Sooner or later, one of these bots will mutate into a personality right out of , single out the youngest woman in a meeting, and tell her,
