{"id":3376,"date":"2018-10-11T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Theres-an-excellent-story-in-the-anthology-Futuristica-Volume-1-about-a-police-bot-thats-been-trained-on"},"modified":"2018-10-11T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T17:24:07","slug":"theres-an-excellent-story-in-the-anthology-futuristica-volume-1-about-a-police-bot-thats-been-trained-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/10\/11\/theres-an-excellent-story-in-the-anthology-futuristica-volume-1-about-a-police-bot-thats-been-trained-on\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s an excellent story in the anthology Futuristica Volume 1 about a police bot that&#8217;s been trained on&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>There&#8217;s an excellent story in the anthology <em>Futuristica Volume 1<\/em> about a police bot that&#8217;s been trained on historical data and shoots an innocent young black man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Gina Drayer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Surprise! An AI feed a past bias (intentional or otherwise) turns out to be biased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Because AI systems learn to make decisions by looking at historical data they often perpetuate existing biases. In this case, that bias was the male-dominated working environment of the tech world. According to Reuters, Amazon\u2019s program penalized applicants who attended all-women\u2019s colleges, as well as any resumes that contained the word \u201cwomen\u2019s\u201d (as might appear in the phrase \u201cwomen\u2019s chess club\u201d).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/10\/17958784\/ai-recruiting-tool-bias-amazon-report<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        There&#8217;s an excellent story in the anthology Futuristica Volume 1 about a police bot that&#8217;s been trained on&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2018\/10\/11\/theres-an-excellent-story-in-the-anthology-futuristica-volume-1-about-a-police-bot-thats-been-trained-on\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}