{"id":128061,"date":"2021-09-24T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/ai-tradeoffs-balancing-powerful-models-and-potential-biases"},"modified":"2021-09-24T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T20:23:06","slug":"ai-tradeoffs-balancing-powerful-models-and-potential-biases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/ai-tradeoffs-balancing-powerful-models-and-potential-biases","title":{"rendered":"AI tradeoffs: Balancing powerful models and potential biases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-tradeoffs-balancing-powerful-models-and-potential-biases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As developers unlock new AI tools, the risk for perpetuating harmful biases becomes increasingly high \u2014 especially on the heels of a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2020\/08\/02\/ai-is-struggling-to-adjust-to-2020\/\">year like 2020<\/a>, which reimagined many of our social and cultural norms upon which AI algorithms have long been trained.<\/p>\n<p>A handful of foundational models are emerging that rely upon a magnitude of training data that makes them inherently powerful, but it\u2019s not without risk of harmful biases \u2014 and we need to collectively acknowledge that fact.<\/p>\n<p>Recognition in itself is easy. Understanding is much harder, as is mitigation against future risks. Which is to say that we must first take steps to ensure that we understand the roots of these biases in an effort to better understand the risks involved with developing AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As developers unlock new AI tools, the risk for perpetuating harmful biases becomes increasingly high \u2014 especially on the heels of a year like 2020, which reimagined many of our social and cultural norms upon which AI algorithms have long been trained. A handful of foundational models are emerging that rely upon a magnitude of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}