Confronting Bias In A.I.: raceAhead
It's a "fundamental issue" says one expert at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference.
A.I. and A.I. enabled tools
“Bias is going to be one of the fundamental issues of A.I. in the future,” Richard Socher, the chief scientist at software company Salesforce, said at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo.
Socher was in conversation with Dario Gil, director of research at IBM, who said that they were working on ways to give business customers a way to audit the decisions, predictions, or recommendations that A.I. tools made. It’s an accountability thing, he said. “We have to put responsibility back to who is creating this software and what is their purpose and what is their intent,” he said. “The accountability has to rest with the institutions creating and using this software.”
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One of the things we can do right now is
If you’re in a mood to test yourself on how quickly you’d cave to business pressures to adopt a biased process despite your best intentions, then carve out a cool six minutes to play Survival Of The Best Fit.
It’s a crisply designed digital game that puts you, the hiring manager, under an increasing amount of pressure to make a smart hiring decision for your rapidly growing company. While it’s industry agnostic, it does deal with tech-related hiring, and somewhere mid-game, it deftly delivers a whopping “aha moment” while throwing Big Tech gently under the bus.
The entire experience is instructive. “Much of the public debate on A.I. has presented its as a threat imposed on us, rather than one that we have agency over,” say creators/technologists/designers Gábor Csapó, Jihyun, Var Miha, and Alia ElKattan. “We want to change that by helping people understand the technology, and demand more accountability from those building increasingly pervasive software systems.”
Enjoy.