Technology
Ethical Dilemmas in Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making
Quick fact
AI systems trained on historical data have shown racial and gender bias—for example, some hiring algorithms penalized resumes from women’s colleges, and some healthcare algorithms under-served Black patients based on cost data, not health need.
Why this is interesting
You're in a self-driving car that must choose between hitting a pedestrian or sacrificing you—should a machine make that call? As AI decides who gets a loan, a job, or medical care, we're forced to ask: whose ethics are we programming?