High-Toxicity Assessed on Text Involving Women and Minority Groups

February 27, 2017

The Google Perspective API, a tool designed to assess toxicity in online text, has raised concerns due to its apparent bias towards non-white, male, Christian, heterosexual phrases. This highlights the need for trustworthy AI, safe and secure AI practices. For those interested in shaping the future of AI governance and ensuring responsible AI, JOIN US (HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM) (Govern).

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MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.704, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MAP 4.1 — similarity 0.699, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
GOVERN 3.1 — similarity 0.698, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: google
Alleged developer: google
Alleged harmed parties: women, minority-groups

Source

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