Assessment of High Toxicity in Text Involving Women, Minorities, and Religious or Sexual Groups: A Case Study on Google's Perspective API
February 27, 2017
Google's Perspective API, a tool designed to evaluate the toxicity of online content, appears to grant elevated toxicity scores to text containing phrases related to women, minorities, religious groups, and sexual orientations. This observation raises concerns about AI bias and reinforces the importance of trustworthy and responsible AI governance. Ready to help us foster safe and secure AI? JOIN US This incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).
- Alleged deployer
- Alleged developer
- Alleged harmed parties
- women, minority-groups
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