Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world.
said that algorithms are “opinions embedded in code.” Few people understand the implications of that better than Abeba Birhane. Born and raised in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Birhane moved to Ireland to study: first psychology, then philosophy, then a PhD in cognitive science at University College Dublin.
the health needs of Black patients and of making it less likely that people of color will be approved for a mortgage. Often, Birhane only has to scratch the surface of a data set before the problems jump out. In 2020, Birhane and colleague Vinay Prabhu audited two popular data sets. The first is “80 Million Tiny Images,” an MIT set that’s been cited in hundreds of academic papers and used for more than a decade to teach machine learning systems how to recognize people and objects. It was full of offensive labels—including racist slurs for images of Black people.
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