Based on inaccurate and overtly biased content from the web, an experimental robot favours men over women, suggests Black people are criminals and appoints stereotypical occupations to women and Latino men.
Researchers observing a robot operating with a popular Internet-based artificial intelligence system found that it displayed bias. The robot consistently preferred men over women, white people over people of colour, and jumped to conclusions about people’s occupations with just one glance at their face.
The collaborative effort by Johns Hopkins University, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Washington scientists is thought to be pioneering work when it comes to exposing robots loaded with an accepted and widely-used model to have significant gender and racial biases.
The study was published recently before being presented at the 2022 Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (ACM FaccT).
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