By: Crystal Ge

As part of a recent experiment, scientists haves

asked specially programmed robots to scan blocks with

people’s faces on, them and determine whether they can be

described by the word criminal. With this task, the robots

have repeatedly chosen blocks with a black man’s face.

The robots to create robots. Instead of asking people

to come, and sort the shelf blocks themselves, robots can

go and sort it out, probably faster than humans.

The researchers have given some robots 62

commands to do. When researchers ask robots to pick

images of “homemakers,” Black, and Latina women were

more commonly selected then white men.

Birhane said that it’s nearly impossible to have an

artificial intelligence data set that isn’t biased, but that

doesn’t mean companies should give up. Birhane said it is

up to scientists to creating new ways to diagnose and

improve those issues.