Lucy Craddock CloudCampLondon - AI Ethics - Bias in Data
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A 5 minutes Lightning Talk - The impact of data biases being applied to worldwide AI systems and how data reflects societies prejudices
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Lucy Craddock CloudCampLondon - AI Ethics - Bias in Data
- 1. AI Ethics - Bias in Data
- 2. Hello! I am Lucy Craddock I am a data science degree apprentice. You can find me at @fudgycraddock 2
- 3. Driverless Cars Can AI make life-or-death decisions? 3
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- 7. 7 50% x 3 lives 88% x 2 lives 99% x 4 lives
- 8. USA Female Dummies in Car Crash Tests EU 8 ● Female dummy introduced in 2011. ● 4-feet-10 inches tall, 108 pounds ● Can double as a 12-year-old child ● Female dummy used in 1 test ● … in the passenger seat ● Smaller version of a male dummy http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1203713&dswid= -7449https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/female-dummy-makes -her-mark-on-male-dominated-crash-tests/2012/03/07/gIQANBLjaS_story.html https://www.humaneticsatd.com/crash-test-dummies/frontal-impact/hiii -5f
- 9. female vehicle occupant’s odds of being injured in a frontal crash are 73% greater than the odds for a male occupant 9 - University of Virginia, 2019
- 10. Heart Attacks ▪ BHF found Women are 50% more likely than men to receive an incorrect diagnosis ▪ Estimate that over 10 years, 8,200 women have died needlessly after a heart attack 10
- 11. Office Temperature ▪ Standard office temperature developed in 1960s ▪ Overestimates female metabolic rates as much as 35% 11 https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2741
- 12. Voice Recognition Software ▪ Google’s voice recognition software is 70% more accurate for male voices over female voices. 12 https://makingnoiseandhearingthings.com/2016/07/12/ googles-speech-recognition-has-a-gender-bias/
- 13. Face Recognition Software ▪ Microsoft and IBM can identify white male faces with 99% accuracy ▪ Both had error rates of 35% for dark-skinned women 13 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/13/facial_recognition_s oftware_is_better_at_white_men_than_black_women/
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- 16. Racial Bias ▪ COMPAS, designed by Northpointe is a tool that scores offenders by likeliness to reoffend to determine prison sentences and bail time. ▪ Criticised for being racist 16 https://medium.com/thoughts-and-reflections/racial-bias-and-gender-bias-example s-in-ai-systems-7211e4c166a1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/17/can-an-algorit hm-be-racist-our-analysis-is-more-cautious-than-propublicas/
- 17. 17 ‘COMPAS Software Results’, Julia Angwin et al. (2016)
- 19. Human Classification Bias ▪ Youtube sued by its creators over their demonetization algorithm for discriminating LGBTQ content. ▪ Demonetisation is ‘confirmed’ by human classifiers □ Allegedly outsourced from countries where homosexualiy is illegal 19 https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20805283/lgbtq-youtuber-lawsuit-discrimination-alleged-video-r ecommendations-demonetization https://www.htxt.co.za/2019/09/30/youtubers-discover-why-lgtbqi-content-is-being-demonetised-on-yo utube/
- 20. Conclusions 20
- 21. Thanks! Any questions? You can find me at ▪ @fudgycraddock 21
- 22. Credits Special thanks to all the people who made and released these awesome resources for free: ▪ Presentation template by SlidesCarnival 22
- 23. Further Reading ▪ For more cases on the gender data gap, please see Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez 23