Lesson 523 of 1234
Why AI Can Be Unfair Without Meaning To
AI can pick up unfair ideas from the writing it learned from.
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- 1The big idea
- 2bias
- 3fairness
- 4training data problems
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Section 1
The big idea
AI learns from writing made by humans. And humans aren't always fair. So AI can sometimes act unfair without knowing it — like always picking boy names for doctors and girl names for nurses. This is called bias.
Some examples
- Old picture-makers used to draw mostly white people for 'CEO'.
- AI might assume all chefs are men or all nannies are women.
- Engineers work hard to fix bias when they find it.
- If something feels unfair from AI, it's okay to push back.
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Ask an AI to describe 'a hero' or 'a scientist'. Did it make any assumptions about who they are? Try asking again with different words and see if you get a different answer.
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