{"641770":{"#nid":"641770","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The Ugly Truth About Ourselves and Our Robot Creations,\u0026quot; a paper co-authored by Jason Borenstein, associate director of the Center of Ethics and Technology in the School of Public Policy, was mentioned in the article \u0026quot;Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are,\u0026quot; published Nov. 22, 2020 in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EThe New York Times\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article discusses the question of whether the use of robots can help reduce bias in law enforcement, or whether they will simply reinforce patterns already present in humans. The paper, which Borenstein wrote with Ayanna Howard, the\u0026nbsp;the Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Professor and Chair of the\u0026nbsp;School of Interactive Computing\u0026nbsp;in the College of Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;A key facet of the case is the man happened to be African-American,\u0026rdquo; Ayanna Howard, a robotics researcher at Georgia Tech, and Jason Borenstein, a colleague in the university\u0026rsquo;s school of public policy, wrote in a 2017 paper titled \u0026ldquo;The Ugly Truth About Ourselves and Our Robot Creations\u0026rdquo; in the journal Science and Engineering Ethics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/22\/science\/artificial-intelligence-robots-racism-police.html?searchResultPosition=6\u0022\u003EFull article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-12-01 19:19:44","changed_gmt":"2020-12-01 19:19:44","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Extension of Self","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/22\/science\/artificial-intelligence-robots-racism-police.html?searchResultPosition=6","dateline":{"date":"2020-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"584476":{"id":"584476","type":"image","title":"Jason Borenstein","body":null,"created":"1480555704","gmt_created":"2016-12-01 01:28:24","changed":"1480555704","gmt_changed":"2016-12-01 01:28:24","alt":"","file":{"fid":"222840","name":"jason_borenstein.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jason_borenstein.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jason_borenstein.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":9195,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jason_borenstein.jpeg?itok=1QHiRdwp"}}},"media_ids":["584476"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"},{"id":"174523","name":"Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}