AI and Blackness: Towards moving beyond bias and representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.03687v1
• Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 18:24:54 GMT
• Title: AI and Blackness: Towards moving beyond bias and representation
• Authors: Christopher L. Dancy and P. Khalil Saucier
• Abstract summary: We argue that AI ethics must move beyond the concepts of race-based representation and bias. Antiblackness in AI requires more of an examination of the ontological space that provides a foundation for the design, development, and deployment of AI systems.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we argue that AI ethics must move beyond the concepts of race-based representation and bias, and towards those that probe the deeper relations that impact how these systems are designed, developed, and deployed. Many recent discussions on ethical considerations of bias in AI systems have centered on racial bias. We contend that antiblackness in AI requires more of an examination of the ontological space that provides a foundation for the design, development, and deployment of AI systems. We examine what this contention means from the perspective of the sociocultural context in which AI systems are designed, developed, and deployed and focus on intersections with anti-Black racism (antiblackness). To bring these multiple perspectives together and show an example of antiblackness in the face of attempts at de-biasing, we discuss results from auditing an existing open-source semantic network (ConceptNet). We use this discussion to further contextualize antiblackness in design, development, and deployment of AI systems and suggest questions one may ask when attempting to combat antiblackness in AI systems.

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