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FEATURE
Implicit Bias
Harvey L. White
Confronting
AI’s information, disinformation and misinformation
Like other advances in science and technology, artificial intelligence can improve people’s lives, yet also worsen inequity.
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An AI-driven transformation is re- configuring society and the econo- my. The capacity of AI technologies to liberate humans from participation in routinized, labor-intensive and danger- ous activities represents new dynamics for working, learning and playing. Fore- casts of the impact of AI suggest both promising and precarious outcomes. Those forecasts and the disparate im- pact are influenced by the quality of data, information, disinformation or misinformation underpinning AI algo- rithms. Continuous scrutiny is neces- sary to prevent the inclusion of existing
societal inequities in the configuration of these algorithms.
Data and information are the heart of artificial intelligence algorithms. Data fuels all AI systems. Thus, the quality characteristics of AI data are es- sential areas of inquiry. As all fuels are not the same, AI data quality also varies. In addition to traditional questions of accuracy, timeliness, completeness, con- sistency, relevance, validity and other attributes, data-equity concerns suggest disparate outcomes from collecting, or- ganizing, analyzing and programming data underpinning AI systems. Data