
AI Ethics: Identifying Your Ethnicity and Gender
Last Updated on July 24, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Allen Jiang
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Why is this an important question? Ultimately this is a stepping stone to answering the ethical question: should we teach Artificial Intelligence to detect your ethnicity? This is an analogous question to: if we had complete discretion, would we teach our children to recognize someone’s ethnicity?
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As the creators and users of these tools, it is our responsibility to regulate AI in a similar manner to how we enforce seat belts and speed limits.
Elon Musk on AI regulation.
On the pathway to AI ethics, we can first explore AI’s ability to predict your gender simply based on text. We will… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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