{"id":417236,"date":"2022-03-17T00:06:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T21:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-combat-systemic-racism\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T00:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T21:06:24","slug":"how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-combat-systemic-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-combat-systemic-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"#How artificial intelligence can help combat systemic racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ebe1616a24\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2ebe1616a24\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-artificial-intelligence-can-help-combat-systemic-racism\/#%E2%80%9CHow_artificial_intelligence_can_help_combat_systemic_racism%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;How artificial intelligence can help combat systemic racism&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_artificial_intelligence_can_help_combat_systemic_racism%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How artificial intelligence can help combat systemic racism&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/facial-recognition.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/facial-recognition.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/facial-recognition.jpg\" alt=\"facial recognition\" title=\"Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                Credit: Pixabay\/CC0 Public Domain<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2020, Detroit police arrested a Black man for shoplifting almost $4,000 worth of watches from an upscale boutique. He was handcuffed in front of his family and spent a night in lockup. After some questioning, however, it became clear that they had the wrong man. So why did they arrest him in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                The reason: a facial recognition algorithm had matched the photo on his driver&#8217;s license to grainy security camera footage.<\/p>\n<p>Facial recognition algorithms\u2014which have repeatedly been demonstrated to be less accurate for people with darker skin\u2014are just one example of how racial bias gets replicated within and perpetuated by emerging technologies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s an urgency as AI is used to make really high-stakes decisions,&#8221; says MLK Visiting Professor S. Craig Watkins, whose academic home for his time at MIT is the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). &#8220;The stakes are higher because new systems can replicate historical biases at scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watkins, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and the founding director of the Institute for <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Innovation, researches the impacts of media and data-based systems on human behavior, with a specific concentration on issues related to systemic racism. &#8220;One of the fundamental questions of the work is: how do we build AI models that deal with systemic inequality more effectively?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Ethical AI<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Inequality is perpetuated by <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> in many ways across many sectors. One broad domain is health care, where Watkins says inequity shows up in both quality of and access to care. The demand for mental health care, for example, far outs<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s the capacity for services in the United States. That demand has been exacerbated by the pandemic, and access to care is harder for communities of color.<\/p>\n<p>For Watkins, taking the bias out of the algorithm is just one component of building more ethical AI. He works also to develop tools and platforms that can address inequality outside of tech head-on. In the case of mental health access, this entails developing a tool to help mental health providers deliver care more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are building a real-time data collection platform that looks at activities and behaviors and tries to identify patterns and contexts in which certain mental states emerge,&#8221; says Watkins. &#8220;The goal is to provide data-informed insights to care providers in order to deliver higher-impact services.&#8221;<br \/>\n                                            <!-- Google middle Adsense block --><\/p>\n<p>Watkins is no stranger to the privacy concerns such an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> would raise. He takes a user-centered approach to the development that is grounded in data ethics. &#8220;Data rights are a significant component,&#8221; he argues. &#8220;You have to give the user complete control over how their data is shared and used and what data a care provider sees. No one else has access.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mb-4\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n    <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"How artificial intelligence can help combat systemic racism | MIT News\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\/?v=ic-RKkahD1o\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Racial Justice. Credit: S. Craig Watkins | TEDxMIT\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-03-16T16:57:27-04:00\"\/><br \/>\n        <meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ic-RKkahD1o\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ic-RKkahD1o\/maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>             <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Racial Justice | S. Craig Watkins | TEDxMIT\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ic-RKkahD1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up mt-4\" itemprop=\"caption\">Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Racial Justice. Credit: S. Craig Watkins | TEDxMIT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Combating systemic racism<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here at MIT, Watkins has joined the newly launched Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR), an IDSS research collaboration that brings together faculty and researchers from the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing and beyond. The aim of the ICSR is to develop and harness computational tools that can help effect structural and normative change toward racial equity.<\/p>\n<p>The ICSR collaboration has separate project teams researching systemic racism in different sectors of society, including health care. Each of these &#8220;verticals&#8221; addresses different but interconnected issues, from sustainability to employment to gaming. Watkins is a part of two ICSR groups, policing and housing, that aim to better understand the processes that lead to discriminatory practices in both sectors. &#8220;Discrimination in housing contributes significantly to the racial wealth gap in the U.S.,&#8221; says Watkins.<\/p>\n<p>The policing team examines patterns in how different populations get policed. &#8220;There is obviously a significant and charged history to policing and race in America,&#8221; says Watkins. &#8220;This is an attempt to understand, to identify patterns, and note regional differences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watkins and the policing team are building models using data that details police interventions, responses, and race, among other variables. The ICSR is a good fit for this kind of research, says Watkins, who notes the interdisciplinary focus of both IDSS and the SCC. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Systemic change requires a collaborative model and different expertise,&#8221; says Watkins. &#8220;We are trying to maximize influence and potential on the computational side, but we won&#8217;t get there with computation alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Opportunities for change<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Models can also predict outcomes, but Watkins is careful to point out that no algorithm alone will solve racial challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Models in my view can inform policy and strategy that we as humans have to create. Computational models can inform and generate knowledge, but that doesn&#8217;t equate with change.&#8221; It takes additional work\u2014and additional expertise in policy and advocacy\u2014to use knowledge and insights to strive toward progress.<\/p>\n<p>One important lever of change, he argues, will be building a more AI-literate society through access to information and opportunities to understand AI and its impact in a more dynamic way. He hopes to see greater data rights and greater understanding of how societal systems impact our lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was inspired by the response of younger people to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Their tragic deaths shine a bright light on the real-world implications of structural racism and has forced the broader society to pay more attention to this issue, which creates more opportunities for change.&#8221;\n                                                                                                                        <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-medium text-info mt-2 d-inline-block\" href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2022-03-link-racialethnic-disparities-covid-deaths.html\">New study finds link between racial\/ethnic disparities and COVID-19 deaths<\/a>\n                                        <\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                <i>This story is republished courtesy of MIT <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/\">web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/<\/a>), a popular site that covers news about MIT research, innovation and teaching.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 How artificial intelligence can help combat systemic racism (2022, March 16)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved 16 March 2022<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2022-03-artificial-intelligence-combat-racism.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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