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AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair

Algorithms trained on biased data sets often recognize only the left-hand image as a bride. Credit: Left: iStock/Getty; Right: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty

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Nature 559, 324-326 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05707-8

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