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Friday, May 3, 2019
Eye on A.I.— How to Fix Artificial Intelligence's Diversity Crisis - JONATHAN VANIAN, Fortune
In recent years, researchers and journalists have highlighted artificial intelligence sometimes stumbling when it comes to minorities and women. Facial recognition technology, for example, is more likely to become confused when scanning dark-skinned women than light-skinned men. Last week, AI Now, a research group at New York University, released a study about A.I.’s diversity crisis. The report said that a lack of diversity among the people who create artificial intelligence and in the data they use to train it has created huge shortcomings in the technology.
http://fortune.com/2019/04/23/artificial-intelligence-diversity-crisis/