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Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often, Study Finds

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  1. No Worries

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    Self-Driving Cars are ... Racist!!!

    Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often, Study Finds

    According to a new paper from the Georgia Institute of Technology, autonomous cars could disproportionately endanger pedestrians with darker skin, a troubling sign of how AI can inadvertently reproduce prejudices from the wider world. Futurism reports:

    Thankfully, the researchers were able to figure out what was needed to avoid a future of biased self-driving cars: start including more images of dark-skinned pedestrians in the data sets the systems train on and place more weight on accurately detecting those images.
     
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    Besides people, aren't there plenty of dark objects we'd rather our cars not run into?
     
    #2 JuanValdez, Mar 7, 2019
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    Damn furry cats better stay out of the road!
     
    #4 Deckard, Mar 7, 2019
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    Did they test people in blackface?
     
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