Sam Levin, The Guardian; 'Bias deep inside the code': the problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley
"“Algorithms determine who gets housing loans and who doesn’t, who
goes to jail and who doesn’t, who gets to go to what school,” said
Malkia Devich Cyril, the executive director of the Center for Media
Justice. “There is a real risk and real danger to people’s lives and
people’s freedom.”
Universities and ethics boards could play a vital role in
counteracting these trends. But they rarely work with people who are
affected by the tech, said Laura Montoya, the cofounder and president of
the Latinx in AI Coalition: “It’s one thing to really observe bias and
recognize it, but it’s a completely different thing to really understand
it from a personal perspective and to have experienced it yourself
throughout your life.”
It’s
not hard to find AI ethics groups that replicate power structures and
inequality in society – and altogether exclude marginalized groups.
The Partnership on AI,
an ethics-focused industry group launched by Google, Facebook, Amazon,
IBM and Microsoft, does not appear to have black board members or staff
listed on its site, and has a board dominated by men. A separate
Microsoft research group dedicated to “fairness, accountability,
transparency, and ethics in AI” also excludes black voices."
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