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How AI Learns to Be Sexist and Racist

If white-male biases get into AI, it could have repercussions for women or minorities, adding prejudice to hiring, promotions and salary decisions.
If AI learns from human interaction, is it doomed to pick up our biases and excesses?
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It won’t be long before someone reports a case of sexual harassment by an artificial intelligence.

Loutish AI behavior won’t reach the grotesque levels of a or Harvey , given that a software bot can’t exactly open its robe and demand a massage. But we’re entering an era when Siri-like conversational AI will be embedded in the workplace, listening and commenting from, say, speakers in conference rooms. Sooner or later, one of these bots will mutate into a personality right out of , single out the youngest woman in a meeting, and tell her,

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