#language sexism

Google fixes Translate tool after accusations of sexism

“Flawed algorithms can amplify biases through feedback loops,” professors James Zou and Londa Schiebinger wrote in a paper titled “AI can be sexist and racist - it’s time to make it fair.” “Each time a translation program defaults to ‘he said,’ it increases the relative frequency of the masculine pronoun on the web - potentially reversing hard-won advances toward equality.”

Can AI be sexist? Yes, it can be as sexist as people who created it and as sexist as the corpora it learns from.