Tech is often built by homogeneous groups of people, and that’s a problem because those groups don’t always represent the world, and their biases can become amplified in AI.

Click above to listen to part 3 of Skeptic Check: Data Bias, featuring Amy Webb, futurist, founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute, and author of “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity,” describing the imperative to address the implications and applications of artificial intelligence before it’s too late.

Skeptic Check: Data Bias:
Part 1: Caroline Criado-Perez / Invisible Women
Part 2: Kade Crockford / Facial Recognition
Part 3: Amy Webb / Proprietary A.I.

 

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