{"id":201874,"date":"2024-12-18T22:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T04:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/bias-in-ai-amplifies-our-own-biases-finds-study"},"modified":"2024-12-18T22:23:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T04:23:51","slug":"bias-in-ai-amplifies-our-own-biases-finds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/bias-in-ai-amplifies-our-own-biases-finds-study","title":{"rendered":"Bias in AI amplifies our own biases, finds study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bias-in-ai-amplifies-our-own-biases-finds-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Human and AI biases can consequently create a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/feedback+loop\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">feedback loop<\/a>, with small initial biases increasing the risk of human error, according to the findings published in Nature Human Behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s performance and overestimate white men\u2019s likelihood of holding high-status jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 feedback loop, with small initial biases increasing the risk of human error, according to the findings [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201874","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}