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Research Prototype AI, Delphi, Reportedly Gave Racially Biased Answers on Ethics

A publicly accessible research model that was trained via Reddit threads showed racially biased advice on moral dilemmas, allegedly demonstrating limitations of language-based models trained on moral judgments.

Date it happened
2021-10-22
Organisation involved
Allen Institute for AI
Product, system or model
Ask Delphi is a neural network (mathematical system loosely modeled on the web of neurons in the brain) that analyzed more than 1.7 million ethical judgments by human reviewers from Mechanical Turk fr
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