We have a giant problem in the area of artificial intelligence — and it’s not “Terminator 2” or AI grabbing control of the nukes and destroying all of us.
It is the simple fact that artificial intelligence, like all social media and technology, is a human creation. Because artificial intelligence is supposed to be some sort of imitator of human intelligence, that means it is going to carry our biases.
When the tech bros or people at the top levels of AI talk about how the algorithm makes decisions, it’s important to understand the algorithm is designed by them in the same way you decide how children should be educated. These people are deciding exactly what biases should be implanted in things like AI. When leaders in this field make statements like, “It’s the algorithm that’s controlling this,” understand, they’re using the algorithm in the same way that Roman…
