Robots become sexist and racist bigots because of flawed AI.
This is according to an international study conducted by a number of universities, including Johns Hopkins University, which said in a statement obtained by Zenger News on Tuesday, June 21: “A robot operating with a popular Internet-based artificial intelligence system consistently gravitates to men over women, white people over people of color, and jumps to conclusions about peoples’ jobs after a glance at their face.”
The research, conducted by experts at Johns Hopkins University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Washington in the United States and at the Technical University of Munich in Germany, is “believed to be the first to show that robots loaded with an accepted and widely-used model operate with significant gender and racial biases”.
