This is an I-Heart podcast.

This is Solvable.

I'm Ronald Young, Jr.

Every single instance where something has transformed our society for good, there's always

been this fear. Some of the greatest advancements in our society are directly linked to technological

breakthroughs. Whether it was the wheel, the printing press, or the microchip, the world has

been transformed from generation to generation.

In many cases, transformation was not greeted with acceptance and quick adoption, but instead

with anger, fear, and apprehension. And this is the reception that has met artificial intelligence.

That potential negative of being reliant on this software, on AI, on robotics, the negatives are

less than the positives.

But it's not just the fear of reliance of these technologies.

It's also the fear of the technology magnifying and multiplying our worst human

tendencies. There have been troubling instances where bias and robotics and AI have been identified

as a potential disqualifying factor for their wide deployment. These systems have some aspect of bias.

Time and time and time again, they're still better than the human biases.

Dr. Ayanna Howard is the dean of the College of Engineering at the Ohio State University

and one of the few non-white male roboticists in the field.

So I don't think that these systems can ever get to zero bias

because there will always be a group that the

system has not interacted with. It might be that it's perfect, it's perfect, it's perfect,

and then there's an unknown community in South Wales somewhere that had never interacted,

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