Last Week in AI

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From the Editor: The Apple Card AI Bias Drama

A bit of a controversial note for today.

The challenges of bias in artificial intelligence(AI) models headlines this week with the controversy surrounding the Apple Card. Based on initial reviews, the new credit card granted higher limits to men than to women without a reasonable explanation. These developments are certainly concerning it even triggered an investigation by the New York State Department of Financial Services. Needles to say that the media had a field day with these news and every tech reporter seemed to be an AI bias expert this week.

The case of Apple’s new credit card shows the risks of relying completely on AI for decisions that affect humans. However, the solution is not as trivial as the media makes it look. Solving AI bias goes beyond data curation techniques and, for now, it might require human intervention. We understand very little about the cognitive processes behind human bias. Many of them are incredibly subjective and related to education or socio-economic aspects which they don’t quite…