Scholars at Harvard conference warn ‘biased’ AI could define ‘woman’

MIT scholar says she is working to create ‘feminist AI’ Scholars raised concerns about how artificial intelligence may define the word “woman” or be used to perpetuate “colonialism” during a “Gender and AI: Promise and Perils” conference Friday at Harvard University. The Harvard Radcliffe Institute organized the two-day event to “explore present and future challenges and opportunities posed by the intersections of gender and artificial intelligence (AI).” In order to understand the problems, computer science Professor Fernanda Viégas began by giving a general overview of how AI works. In traditional...