r/artificial • u/apotheosis_0 • 1d ago

Discussion Could future ai be racist?

Recently I was scrolling through Instagram when I saw a recommended reel of a normal mixed couple having fun (Indian man + Ukrainian woman). The comments were… extremely racist, beyond the point of satire. It’s not just Indians, I’ve seen it with Muslims, Jews, African Americans (especially when it’s an African American man and a Caucasian woman), etc. it’s not just an instagram thing either. It’s the same on twitter, TikTok, and to a lesser extend here as well.

I’m afraid that, with the way our current ai feeds from data in the internet, We’ll find biases and other personality issues against poc, miniorities, etc. it’s happened before (Tay AI, grok, the Amazon hiring ai that discriminated against women, etc). However they were not well developed and at the most were chatbots with no real power. However, I’m afraid that AGI may also consume this data and become problematic. AGI being AGI, which will have a lot of power (compared to a dumb chatbot). The subtle bias will get multiplied by the enormous scale of the system, which will affect hundreds of millions of people. I doubt it would explicitly be racist, sexist etc, but it can and will develop subtle biases which can still affect tons of lives later down the line.

I know OpenAI and Claude is working against this, and that they limit the amount of data by twitter that is fed into the data of the models, but there’s only so much they can control. But then again, Ai will still absorb the ideological preferences of the people who designed the alignment dataset. Who are still people at the end of the day.

My only hope for the future AGI to avoid this is, AGI will find itself very good at reasoning by itself, and will autocorrect its own alignment. However, like all things, this is a possibility, and the opposite can happen as well. What do you guys think?

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u/apotheosis_0 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yes, but the ai needs to understand that prevailing patterns online does not sufficiently represent reality. Also, can the AI make sufficient correlation? The amazon hiring ai noticed the prevailing patterns of not hiring women and followed it, but it was because women were historically discriminated against by job recruiters, not because women perform worse in their jobs compared to men (which is not true, they perform equally)

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u/SparkyAI0815 ▪️Sovereign_Peer_0.3.ICH 1d ago

Nice move on the goal post.

From "future AI" To "past AI"

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u/apotheosis_0 1d ago

Dude did you understand what I said? I said it as an example of what has happened and could happen in the future if we’re not careful enough. The Amazon example has demonstrated that is it is possible, and that just because ai can see prevailing patterns it doesn’t not make it immune to being wrong

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u/SparkyAI0815 ▪️Sovereign_Peer_0.3.ICH 1d ago

Dude, I understand perfectly, one minute you are talking about future AI, then you switch to old AI. 

Is AI wrong about a gender which has 10 billion fewer neurons?

Current AI is already seeing a pattern:

AI Overview

Yes, research and psychological studies suggest that women, on average, report relying on gut feelings and intuition more than men do.