Is AI just as Biased as the Humans Creating It?

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."  Isaac Asimov This is a reprint from article in ReadWrite It might appear that data — the information you find in a scientific article, a history book, or a set of survey results — is just a collection of objective facts. The numbers, if sourced well, are supposed to be the hard truth untarnished by opinions, perspectives, or biases. In reality, this is rarely the case. Here is how AI can be just as biased as the humans creating it.

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