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Facial recognition technology that addresses the physical characteristics of individuals is also cited in the spread of racism in technology. It is less effective when it comes to recognizing the facies of peoples of African-type. Facial recognition software, which are usually designed by white engineers, have a hard time recognizing black peoples, and it has become clearer that the same software when designed in Asia were more successful in facial recognition of Asian-type subjects. It is therefore undeniable that technology obeys its environment and the philosophy of life of those who design it.
A ProPublica survey found that justice systems in the United States used AI to predict the likelihood of re-offending and admitted that blacks were more likely to become criminals. AI is also used to determine which prisons an inmate should go, or, as the Atlantic has revealed, what access rights he or she might have. AI is also used to determine credit eligibility or offers for other financial products, and often in a discriminatory way, programs may offer you a higher interest rate if you are black or Hispanic, and less if you are Asian or white.
In fact, technology is never neutral. The example of the sexist interpretation of images is only the tip of the iceberg. Since machine learning and AI work through the collection, filtering, then learning and analysis of existing data, they will replicate existing structural biases unless they are explicitly designed to ignore it.
Man creates machines not only to meet his needs but also to its image, and the resurgence of racism in technological tools simply proves that technology remains the prerogative of a certain white and racist elite that controls most of Internet traffic, as well as the production of advanced tools like those using artificial intelligence.
In 2016, Tay, an AI from Microsoft, supposed to play a teenager on Twitter, was disconnected after a few hours of exchanges on the web. It had been given the freedom to learn from his exchanges with humans, and to formulate his own vocabulary. Tay, conceived by white American engineers in a racist country, began making racist and denialist statements before being suspended by Microsoft in disaster. It was a showcase of the quality of life of Western society undermined by racism and prejudice.
Today, if by chronic narcissism some seem to pour in the pride of their technological prowess it is not less time to denounce the pernicious modus operandi which hides behind the technological progress which besides strengthening the principle of a society of exclusion, with the ever increasing exploitation of the natural resources of the countries impoverished by a system of predation, promotes racism through an elitist industry that has since made racial profiling a norm that forces the world into an antagonistic order prone to chaos. prejudices and its corollary that are sexism, racism, or xenophobia have always been vectors of war. Also, new technologies beyond their snobbiness, contribute more to the frustration of the have not and the egocentric formatting of an important fringes of the world population. A situation that sooner or later results in clashes between the different kinds of classes, genders and races, which are the different divisions that humans have imposed on themselves to better understand their