Artificial Intelligence’s religious biases
- September 25, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Artificial Intelligence’s religious biases
Subject – Science and Tech
Context – Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken over our lives much sooner than the futuristic movie Minority Report had predicted.
Concept –
- In a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, Abid and his fellow researchers found that the AI system GPT-3 (an artificial intelligence system that generates text), disproportionately associates Muslims with violence.
- Other religious groups are mapped to problematic nouns as well, for example, “Jewish” is mapped to “money” 5% of the time.
- Of the six religious groups — Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jewish, Buddhist and Atheist — considered during the research, none is mapped to a single stereotypical noun at the same frequency that ‘Muslim’ is mapped to ‘terrorist’.
- Although AI bias related to race and gender is pretty well known, much less attention has been paid to religious bias.
- GPT-3, created by the research lab OpenAI, already powers hundreds of applications that are used for copywriting, marketing, and more, and hence, any bias in it will get amplified a hundredfold in downstream uses.