Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often, Study Finds

Self-Driving Cars are ... Racist!!!

Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often, Study Finds

According to a new paper from the Georgia Institute of Technology, autonomous cars could disproportionately endanger pedestrians with darker skin, a troubling sign of how AI can inadvertently reproduce prejudices from the wider world. Futurism reports:

Thankfully, the researchers were able to figure out what was needed to avoid a future of biased self-driving cars: start including more images of dark-skinned pedestrians in the data sets the systems train on and place more weight on accurately detecting those images.