How bots learn bias? From each other

LONDON: Artificially intelligent machines could demonstrate prejudice by simply identifying, copying and learning this behaviour from one another, according to a study.
Researchers from Cardiff University in UK and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in US found that showing prejudice towards others does not require a high level of cognitive ability and could easily be exhibited by machines. The study was published in the journal ‘Scientific Reports’.
“It is feasible that autonomous machines with the ability to identify with discrimination and copy others could in future be susceptible to prejudicial phenomena that we see in the human population,” said Roger Whitaker, a professor at Cardiff University.
Though some types of computer algorithms have already exhibited prejudice, such as racism and sexism, the research demonstrates the possibility of AI evolving prejudicial groups on their own.