If AI is trained to mimic human intelligence, what does it tell us about our society?


Discrimination and bias are rooted in AI. AI is full of prejudices and racial decision making. Artificial intelligence can be associated with racism.

Some AI tools fail to distinguish between Black people and monkeys.

There have been situations in which credit is refused solely on the basis of artificial intelligence's ability to infer someone's ethnicity from a small amount of information.There are AI tools, which when you look for a criminal display a Black person.

AI is unable to detect brown skin as a person, but it can detect the person with a white mask on.

There have been cases where Black people appear when you search for violence.


The text on the images is based on instances of discrimination by AI. The portraits are non existing humans created with an AI tool.

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