Bias in AI Is 'More Than a Glitch'
Racist soap dispensers. Chat GPT texts that seem like they’re grooming 13-year-olds. A kidney transplant list algorithm that disadvantages Black patients. “The next time you see some kind of AI disaster, I would urge you to think about it not just as a blip, not just a glitch,” says NYU journalism professor Meredith Broussard, the author of the new book More than a Glitch:
Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. “We have to fix society before we start crystallizing it in code.”
Racist soap dispensers. Chat GPT texts that seem like they’re grooming 13-year-olds. A kidney transplant list algorithm that disadvantages Black patients. “The next time you see some kind of AI disaster, I would urge you to think about it not just as a blip, not just a glitch,” says NYU journalism professor Meredith Broussard, the author of the new book More than a Glitch:
Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. “We have to fix society before we start crystallizing it in code.”
