recognizing the cultural bias in artificial intelligence

Recognizing the cultural bias in Artificial Intelligence

Camille EddyME student, Boise StateMachine Learning Intern, HP Inc.@NikkyMill

Where does AI exist in our lives?

Addressing Sexism:

Relationships that are common in our language appear in machine translations

father : doctor :: mother : x x = nurse

man : computer programmer :: woman : x x = homemaker

MIT Technology Review – Word2vec

Addressing Racial Bias:

The way we use algorithms can have serious consequences for our personal knowledge

Addressing Search Bias:

Filter Bubbles

Why is it this way?

Who develops the technology… Who uses the technology…

This prevents us from having a ‘perfect’ algorithm for every user….

How do we fix it?make it better \/

Accuracy: _______

Explainable AI (XAI)

… And encourage more people to create and consume

We need more organizations and services to combat bias!

Technology