Our lives are influenced by AI in more ways than we can imagine. From which shows Netflix recommends to whether or not you can get a loan, AI is used to make decisions that can have a profound effect in our lives. It is easy to think that machines are impartial and make decisions based on facts, but in a world where facts are alternative the AIs we create are heavily influenced by our own biases.
In this talk, we’ll explore the ethical implications of how AI is shaping our lives, and whether we can ever have truly unbiased algorithms.
As a data scientist at IBM, Roberto uses AI to help companies make data driven decisions. Regardless if he’s working for a client in manufacturing, healthcare or telco, a big part of his job is combatting inherent biases in data to create algorithms as fact-based as possible.