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Bias in AI amplifies our own biases, finds study

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems tend to take on human biases and amplify them, causing people who use that AI to become more biased themselves, finds a new study by UCL researchers.

Human and AI biases can consequently create a , with small initial biases increasing the risk of human error, according to the findings published in Nature Human Behaviour.

The researchers demonstrated that AI bias can have real-world consequences, as they found that people interacting with biased AIs became more likely to underestimate women’s performance and overestimate white men’s likelihood of holding high-status jobs.