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Eliminating bias in AI may be impossible -- a computer scientist explains how to tame it instead

  • Written by Emilio Ferrara, Professor of Computer Science and of Communication, University of Southern California
Eliminating bias in AI may be impossible -- a computer scientist explains how to tame it insteadBlindly eliminating biases from AI systems can have unintended consequences.Dimitri Otis/DigitalVision via Getty Images

When I asked ChatGPT for a joke about Sicilians the other day, it implied that Sicilians are stinky.

Eliminating bias in AI may be impossible -- a computer scientist explains how to tame it insteadChatGPT can sometimes produce stereotypical or offensive outputs.Screen capture by Emilio Ferrara, CC BY-ND

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