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Church of Woke poised to remodel AI & robotics with its gospel decrees & conspiracy - C C - Aug 6, 2020
https://www.newswise.com/articles/whiteness-of-ai-erases-people-of-colour-from-our-imagined-futures-researchers-argue
INTRO: The overwhelming ‘Whiteness’ of artificial intelligence – from stock images and cinematic robots to the dialects of virtual assistants – removes people of colour from the way humanity thinks about its technology-enhanced future. This is according to experts at the University of Cambridge, who suggest that current portrayals and stereotypes about AI risk creating a “racially homogenous” workforce of aspiring technologists, building machines with bias baked into their algorithms.
They argue that cultural depictions of AI as White need to be challenged, as they do not offer a “post-racial” future but rather one from which people of colour are simply erased. The researchers, from Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), say that AI, like other science fiction tropes, has always reflected the racial thinking in our society.
They argue that there is a long tradition of crude racial stereotypes when it comes to extraterrestrials – from the “orientalised” alien of Ming the Merciless to the Caribbean caricature of Jar Jar Binks. But artificial intelligence is portrayed as White because, unlike species from other planets, AI has attributes used to “justify colonialism and segregation” in the past: superior intelligence, professionalism and power.
“Given that society has, for centuries, promoted the association of intelligence with White Europeans, it is to be expected that when this culture is asked to imagine an intelligent machine it imagines a White machine,” said Dr Kanta Dihal, who leads CFI’s ‘Decolonising AI’ initiative. “People trust AI to make decisions. Cultural depictions foster the idea that AI is less fallible than humans. In cases where these systems are racialised as White that could have dangerous consequences for humans that are not,” she said.... (MORE)
RE: Church of Woke poised to remodel AI & robotics with its gospel decrees & conspiracy - Zinjanthropos - Aug 6, 2020
Church of Woke should be Church of Asleep. I always get the feeling the woke are trying to reverse millions of years of evolution in one generation. But then again that’s part of it.
They should only allow AI in one colour, green or orange, something that includes all the colours, or neutral. Plus it speaks in every dialect, accent, tongues, whatever. Keep everybody happy, the chance is here, don’t pass on it.
International law should only allow AI voices that have their own sound, something like what Hawking used. A machine accent that can be found no where else in the world. I wonder if the world could actually agree on something.
RE: Church of Woke poised to remodel AI & robotics with its gospel decrees & conspiracy - Syne - Aug 6, 2020
Wait, are they equating "superior intelligence, professionalism and power" with whiteness? That's racist.
As far as AI goes, it's just a result of fewer minorities in that field. Even Asians, who would be apt to work in AI, prefer more white looking characters, at least if anime is any indication.
Minorities in STEM fields is the same as women. They just make different choices and have different interests.