Study Emphasizes the Need for Public Education on the Effect of AI Algorithms
Written by AZoRoboticsApr 22 2021
A new set of experiments shows that artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can impact the choice of people for possible romantic partners or fictitious political candidates, based on whether suggestions were clear or hidden.
Potential date? Image Credit: Karras, T., Laine, S., & Aila, T. (2018). A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04948.
Ujué Agudo and Helena Matute from Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, Spain, describe the results of their study in the open-access journal
st, 2021.
Right from Facebook to Google search outcomes, people experience AI algorithms on a daily basis. Private companies are carrying out wide research on the data of their users, thereby gaining insights into human behavior that are not openly available. Academic social science research trails behind private studies, and public awareness is lacking on how AI algorithms may shape the choices of people is lacking.