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Letter: Don't blame AI coders, prejudice is in the data

Published 8 February 2017

From Andy Green, Epsom, Surrey, UK

As a software developer I am incensed by the suggestion that “lazy coders” are to blame for sexist software output. Removing biases such as gender bias from existing bodies of data would be a big challenge. Most businesses would reject such a project on the basis of cost. The headline “Profit-driven business is teaching software to be sexist” would be closer to the truth.

Issue no. 3112 published 11 February 2017

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