Driverless Cars are Biased Against Dark-Skinned People and Kids, Say Scientists

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Driverless Cars are Biased Against Dark-Skinned People and Kids, Say Scientists
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A review of eight different AI pedestrian detectors revealed the programs to be worse at detecting darker-skinned pedestrians and kids.

, these basic technological failures hardly scratch the surface of more insidious problems that may lurk within autonomous vehicles' underlying tech.

That's a staggering figure — and speaks to the real, and potentially deadly, dangers of biased AI systems.According to the study, researchers first engaged in extensive data annotation, marking a total of 8,111 images with "16,070 gender labels, 20,115 age labels, and 3,513 skin tone labels."

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