Freedom4um

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

Resistance
See other Resistance Articles

Title: Blade Runner & HAL 9000 racist? ‘Whiteness’ of artificial intelligence ‘exacerbates racial inequality,’ new study suggests
Source: USSA News
URL Source: https://ussanews.com/News1/2020/08/ ... inequality-new-study-suggests/
Published: Aug 8, 2020
Author: Constitutional Nobody
Post Date: 2020-08-08 08:31:25 by Bill D Berger
Keywords: None
Views: 384
Comments: 6

A University of Cambridge study examining the depiction of artificial intelligence in film, television, Google searches, images, and voices, suggests it is yet another area that showcases racism.

While most would likely assume a machine cannot have a race, the researchers said that they do indeed have “racial identities” influenced by “real world” stereotypes.

These “racial identities” can be found in both the fact that AIs and depictions of AIs have caucasion features and also typically talk in “standard white middle-class English,” including voices given to smartphone technology. The study suggests “black dialects” have been avoided because they are deemed “too controversial or outside the target market.”


Alex Jones breaks down the claim that Oprah Winfrey is a big part of the Hollywood pedophilia cult,
and exposes her role in the plan to forcefully inoculate the world.

Because society has “for centuries, promoted the association of intelligence with white Europeans,” the researchers argue that artificial intelligence and machines are given white characteristics to feed into the racial biases of both users and creators.

The study has a fairly broad definition for what it considers artificial intelligence, as it cites ‘Star Wars’ character Jar Jar Binks as an example of such racial inequality. The character’s Caribbean dialect, according to the research team from Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), demonstrates the bias of the creators. The “orientalized” nature of ‘Flash Gordon’ alien villain Ming the Merciless is also cited as showing racial stereotypes.

More traditional examples of artificial intelligence in pop culture, like 1982’s ‘Blade Runner,’ are also pointed to in the study, published in the Philosophy and Technology journal.

“Androids of metal or plastic are given white features, such as in ‘I, Robot.’ Even disembodied AI — from HAL 9000 to Samantha in ‘Her’ — have white voices,” co-author Dr. Stephen Cave said. “Only very recently have a few TV shows, such as ‘Westworld,’ used AI characters with a mix of skin tones.”

If “white voices” in machines and think pieces on Jar Jar Binks sound far-fetched, the study does try to present a real world consequence to this perceived bias: these depictions in AI “exacerbate racial inequality” and make it more difficult for non-white people to get into and ahead in tech.

“In cases where these systems are racialized as white, that could have dangerous consequences for humans that are not,”Dr. Kanta Dihal, lead researcher in the study, said. “The perceived whiteness of AI will make it more difficult for people of color to advance in the field.”

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

#1. To: Bill D Berger (#0)

I am so fucking tired of reading stupid shit like this. If I wanted my smart phone to become even more irritating at the fact it does not work as advertised, why not give it a dialect that will reinforce a negative stereotype.

"SIRI, Call Martha" "Why you wanna call dat Ho?" "SIRI, Play Brahms concerto number 4" "Nigga please... we listenin' to some Jay-Z up in here."

"Call Me Ishmael" -Ishmael, A character from the book "Moby Dick" 1851. "Call Me Fishmeal" -Osama Bin Laden, A character created by the CIA, and the world's Hide And Seek Champion 2001-2011. -Tommythemadartist

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2020-08-08   8:41:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#1)

lol - your relocation cannot happen quickly enough.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2020-08-08   8:44:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Bill D Berger (#0)

“Androids of metal or plastic are given white features, such as in ‘I, Robot.’ Even disembodied AI — from HAL 9000 to Samantha in ‘Her’ — have white voices,”

I am not so sure that Ebonics would go over very well. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-08-08   9:30:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: TommyTheMadArtist, 4um (#1)

I am so fucking tired of reading stupid shit like this. If I wanted my smart phone to become even more irritating at the fact it does not work as advertised, why not give it a dialect that will reinforce a negative stereotype.

"SIRI, Call Martha" "Why you wanna call dat Ho?" "SIRI, Play Brahms concerto number 4" "Nigga please... we listenin' to some Jay-Z up in here."

One of your best Tommy. Thanks for the laugh.

The 2 + 2 = 5 was my breaking point. The stupid fucks.

The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. - Dr. Eldon Tyrell

Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)

Esso  posted on  2020-08-08   10:04:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Bill D Berger (#0)

Replicant Lives Matter!!!

strepsiptera  posted on  2020-08-08   10:13:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Esso (#4) (Edited)

2 + 2 = 5

I asked my doctor if he knew what 25 x 26 was?

He thought for a moment and said, "650".

I said, "That's right Doc. And you're quick too. Most people haven't got the foggiest notion. 25 squared is 625, then put 25 to it."

When I was in the fifth grade in Chicago that Nun drilled the arithmetic tables into our heads. I can still do them and then some, even with the meningitis. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-08-08   10:36:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest