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Charles Barbour, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Western Sydney University

Can a machine be racist? Artificial Intelligence has shown troubling signs of bias, but there are reasons for optimism

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One day in mid-2013, four people, including two police officers and a social worker, arrived unannounced at the home of Chicago resident Robert McDaniel.

McDaniel had only ever had minor run-ins with the law – street gambling, marijuana possession, nothing even remotely violent. But his visitors informed him that a computer program had determined that the person living at his address was unusually likely to be involved in a future shooting.

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