AI and Gender

We're starting to learn more about the biases buried deep within our data. Many of the knowledge bases that we have long thought of as objective turn out to be systematically skewed. I first became aware of this reading Mark Glezerman's Gender Medicine, which brought to light the way medical research uses evidence derived from research on men only. This can have literally fatal consequences, for example in the way women's strokes fail to be recognised and treated. Glezerman's book was followed by the better-known Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez. Awareness of this has been boosted recently because of the way AI systems use existing data to bake in biases.…
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