Incident 146: Research Prototype AI, Delphi, Reportedly Gave Racially Biased Answers on Ethics
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Question Answering
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Distributional Learning, Language Modeling
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Transformer
Known AI Technical Failure
Distributional Bias, Gaming Vulnerability
Potential AI Technical Failure
Overfitting, Robustness Failure, Context Misidentification, Limited Dataset
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Got a moral quandary you don’t know how to solve? Fancy making it worse? Why not turn to the wisdom of artificial intelligence, aka Ask Delphi: an intriguing research project from the Allen Institute for AI that offers answers to ethical di…
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We’ve all been in situations where we had to make tough ethical decisions. Why not dodge that pesky responsibility by outsourcing the choice to a machine learning algorithm?
That’s the idea behind Ask Delphi, a machine-learning model from t…
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Researchers at an artificial intelligence lab in Seattle called the Allen Institute for AI unveiled new technology last month that was designed to make moral judgments. They called it Delphi, after the religious oracle consulted by the anci…
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