Author: N/A; Publisher: UNESCO; Publication Year: 2023. The following article discusses how bias is very much prevalent in today’s artificial intelligence (AI)-systems shown through many examples. When searching for school in a search system the results often show women in promiscuous outfits, skinny, and white. However, when searching for school boy, the pictures are perfectly ordinary. There was…
Author: Safiya Noble; Publisher: TIME Magazine; Publication Year: 2018. The following article talks about how Google’s search algorithm is biased against the Black woman. It shows and talks about the author’s own identity as a black woman and she talks about how a simple search of black woman would result in pornography of Black girls on Google where as in fact a similar search of say white woman does not yield such…
Author: Jerin Michael; Publisher: Growth Animals; Publication Year: 2021. The following article discusses how there are 5 main ethical issues to look for when it comes to online marketing. The first is consumer privacy. Using online tracking, search engines are able to gather information about people and use that information to sell products and advertise to certain people that have shown interest in similar products. The…
Author: Gretchen Hellman; Publisher: Diversity Employers; Publication Year: 2017. The following article speaks about the bias of search engines. If you were to look for images of a “professor” or “CEO” you would find images of older white males. If you looked for images of a “Nurse” or “Teacher” you would get images of younger females. Given that most CEOs are white males and only 4% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women, it is easy to…