AI expert calls for end to UK use of ‘racially biased’ algorithms | Technology | The Guardian

An expert on artificial intelligence has called for all algorithms that make life-changing decisions – in areas from job applications to immigration into the UK – to be halted immediately. Prof Noel Sharkey, who is also a leading figure in a global campaign against “killer robots”, said algorithms were so “infected with biases” that their decision-making processes could not be fair or trusted. A moratorium must be imposed on all “life-changing decision-making algorithms” in Britain, he said. 'We are hurtling towards a surveillance state’: the rise of facial recognition technology Read more Sharkey has suggested testing AI decision-making machines in the same way as new pharmaceutical drugs are vigorously checked before they are allowed on to the market.