{"id":40994,"date":"2021-10-08T20:21:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T03:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40994"},"modified":"2021-10-09T23:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T06:22:30","slug":"ai-bill-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=40994","title":{"rendered":"AI Bill of Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the White House\u2019s top science advisers called for an artificial intelligence \u201cbill of rights\u201d in an opinion piece published Friday on Wired.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden\u2019s chief science adviser, Eric Lander, and the deputy director for science and society, Alondra Nelson, cautioned of the risks posed by technologies like facial recognition, automated translators and medical diagnosis algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the technology have said that the tools depend on data sets that are often biased in ways that replicate and amplify existing societal biases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cData sets that fail to represent American society can result in virtual assistants that don\u2019t understand Southern accents; facial recognition technology that leads to wrongful, discriminatory arrests; and health care algorithms that discount the severity of kidney disease in African Americans, preventing people from getting kidney transplants,\u201d Lander and Nelson wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The two also cautioned about the potential security and privacy risks from the internet-enabled devices, from smart speakers to webcams.<\/p>\n<p>The influential advisers called for a set of rules using the Bill of Rights as a template to ensure that emerging technologies respect democratic values and treat everyone fairly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the White House\u2019s top&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40995,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40994\/revisions\/40995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}