Google's hate speech-detecting AI appears to be racially biased | New Scientist

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Summary:

Maarten Sap at the University of Washington in the US and his colleagues have found that AIs trained to recognise online hate speech were up to twice as likely to identify tweets as offensive when they were written with African-American English or by people who identify as African American.

Link:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213064-googles-hate-speech-detecting-ai-appears-to-be-racially-biased/

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Date tagged:

08/12/2019, 15:42

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08/12/2019, 11:42