Is AI racially biased? Study finds chatbots treat Black-sounding names differently

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Publish Date:

April 5, 2024

Author(s):

Schulz, Bailey

Source:

USA Today

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Related Organization(s):

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR),
Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology

Summary

“Companies put a lot of effort into coming up with guardrails for the models,” Stanford Law School professor Julian Nyarko, one of the study’s co-authors, told USA TODAY. “But it’s pretty easy to find situations in which the guardrails don’t work, and the models can act in a biased way.”