Facebook apology as AI labels black men ‘primates’ | BBC

An artificial intelligence recommendation system asked Facebook users who saw a newspaper video showcasing black males if they wanted to “keep viewing videos about primates.” It’s the latest in a long line of gaffes that have sparked worries about AI’s potential racial biases. Google’s Photos software labeled photographs of black individuals as “gorillas” in 2015. In 2020, Facebook announced a new “inclusive product council” -as well as a new equity team in Instagram that would look at whether its algorithms were biased against people of color. 

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58462511