Summary: AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’

Birhane redirected her research toward investigating the data sets that are increasingly shaping our world.

But this means AI can inherit all the biases of the humans who design them, and any present in the data that feeds them.

During her doctorate, she found herself surrounded by software developers and data science students—immersed in the models they were building and the data sets they were using.

But she started to realize that no one was really asking questions about what was actually in those data sets.

Artificial intelligence has infiltrated almost every aspect of our lives: It can determine whether you get hired, diagnose you with cancer, or make decisions about whether to release prisoners on parole.

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