Bias can be fought with community forces
We are bustin' bias. Join us.
AI must not systemize more bias
Grassroot and legislative advocacy are critical
Empathy will be key in making AI ethical
Accountability before automation
Bias is a survival strategy to protect ourselves from "others," resulting from evolution. Our brains still struggle to let go of this bias in many ways. Extremism and radicalization are large-scale examples of this. Sometimes, groups will latch onto hatred or bigotry as the thread that ties them together. Unfortunately, hate can be expertly efficient at creating negative communities that thrive off their bias against others. Teenagers especially fall victim to this. With the internet and rapid connectivity, young people can easily become isolated, especially if they lack camaraderie and community in their real lives. Many online corporations take advantage of human's tendency toward communities and design their algorithms to introduce people to whatever content keeps them clicking. Unfortunately, the most profitable and attention-grabbing content tends to be violent, hateful, extremist, or echo-chambers. Vulnerable teenagers can seek comfort in these bad-faith communities, ultimately becoming radicalized and biased against real-life peers, particularly women, LGBTQ+ people, and other minorities.
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Bias is no longer a human-only concern, however. AI is said to be made in our image; it tends to replicate the biases its creators hold. For example, most AI is trained on datasets that do not include all races and genders, mirroring the lack of representation humans perpetuate. This manifests into life or death situations at times; biometric surveillance is 35 times more likely to falsely identify black people as criminals compared to White people. What all this bias has in common is that it is systemized. Teens becoming radicalized due to neglectful real-life environments, minorities ignored by algorithms integrated into the justice system, and recommendation algorithms funneling individuals to extremism; these are not the acts of individual people, but systems. Algorithms, environments, and communities all constitute systems; that is where the bias busters seek to dedicate their focus. We need to take a stand against systemic bias, especially in the age of .our most advanced system; artificial intelligence
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Who We Are
We are a group of friends from Austin, who noticed our own friends develop internet addictions, hateful beliefs, and bigoted attitudes. At the same time, our Texas Legislature struck down DEI, rushes to automate AI by their ethical code, and cuts education budgets by the thousands. We want to push back against this, and our website documents how we're doing this & how you can help us!
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