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by darkwater 399 days ago
The bias found by this research is towards females.
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And the comment says that, since companies start out with more males, it presumably makes sense to favour females to steer towards gender balance.
If this reveals true this is an interesting case of an AI going rogue and starting to implement its own political agenda.
AIs can do no such thing of course, they're a pile of coefficients computed from training data. Any bias found must be a result of either the training data or the exact algorithm (in case of bias based on position in the prompt, for example).
I imagine this is not rogue at all. James Damore was fired almost 10 years ago from Google for saying that aiming for equal hiring from non-equal-sized groups was a bad idea.
I thought google tried that and got laughed out of the room.