As a result, the company disabled the AI function that made the recommendation, apologized for the “unacceptable error” and began an investigation into what went wrong. What do you think the company found as the reason of this incident?

Question

According to The New York Times, Facebook users who viewed a video of Black males on a British tabloid were asked, “Would you like to keep viewing videos of primates (apes and monkeys)?” after seeing the video. As a result, the company disabled the AI function that made the recommendation, apologized for the “unacceptable error” and began an investigation into what went wrong. What do you think the company found as the reason of this incident? 

(i) Gender bias (ii) Biased data fed into the machine (iii) Data Privacy (iv) Data Availability

Topic	AI Ethics
Type	MCQ
Class	10

Answer 1

The correct option is Option 2 Biased data fed into the machine.

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