AI Systems Exhibit Gender and Racial Biases When Learning Language (VIDEO)

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Aylin Caliskan et al. discuss their recent findings, which show that AI systems that learn language acquire the same gender and racial biases as humans. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 14, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Caliskan at Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, and colleagues was titled, "Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases."

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Aaron Nathans, Princeton University

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