AI will end discrimination
Miriam Fahimi, Phillip Lücking · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2021
As an allegedly objective state-of-the-art technology, there are hopes that AI may overcome human weaknesses. Some people believe that AI might be able to gain privileged access to knowledge, free of human biases and errors and thus end discrimination by realizing all in all fair and objective decisions. We approach the de-mystification of this claim by looking at concrete examples of how AI (re)produces inequalities and connect those to several aspects which help to illustrate socio-technical entanglements. Drawing on a range of critical scholars, we argue that this simplifying myth might even be dangerous and point out what to do about it.