How Chinese artificial intelligence perpetuates gender biases
2021-09-30
South China Morning Post
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A report by the Mana Data Foundation and UN Women found that Chinese AI systems, including search engines and recruitment algorithms, systematically perpetuate gender bias. These systems return male-dominated results for professional roles and derogatory content for female-related searches, and discriminate against women in job applications, causing real-world harm.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The event involves AI systems (search engine and recommendation algorithms) whose use has directly led to realized harms, specifically gender discrimination and the perpetuation of harmful cultural stereotypes. These harms constitute violations of human rights and harm to communities as defined in the framework. The article provides concrete examples of biased outputs and offensive content resulting from these AI systems, fulfilling the criteria for an AI Incident. The discussion of mitigation efforts and developer awareness does not overshadow the fact that harm is occurring due to the AI systems' outputs.[AI generated]