Bias in AI is a real problem. Here’s what we should do about it

Hardly a day goes by without a new story about the power of AI and how it will change our world. However, there are also dangers alongside the possibilities. While we should be rightly excited by the idea of AI revolutionizing eye disease and cancer diagnostics, or the potential transport revolution promised by autonomous vehicles, we should not ignore the risks - and one of the most pressing of these is bias. Unlike killer time-traveling robots, AI bias is unlikely to be the stuff of the next Hollywood blockbuster - and yet it is a potentially huge problem. (author abstract)