The Role of AI in Reinforcing or Mitigating Social Biases

Metaphorical representation of AI as a coffee shop barista filtering information with potential social biasA landmark 2018 study by MIT researchers Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gebru revealed that major commercial facial recognition systems had error rates of up to 34.7% for darker-skinned women compared to just 0.8% for lighter-skinned men.…