{"641648":{"#nid":"641648","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA report co-authored by Jason Borenstein, Director of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rcr.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGraduate Research Ethics Programs\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and Associate Director of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ethics.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECenter for Ethics and Technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the School of Public Policy and\u0026nbsp;Ayanna Howard, chair of the School of Interactive Computing, was mentioned in\u0026nbsp;the article, \u0026quot;Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?\u0026quot; published Nov. 22, 2020 by the New York Times.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Given the current tensions arising from police shootings of African-American men from Ferguson to Baton Rouge,\u0026rdquo; Dr. Howard, a leader of the organization Black in Robotics, and Dr. Borenstein wrote, \u0026ldquo;it is disconcerting that robot peacekeepers, including police and military robots, will, at some point, be given increased freedom to decide whether to take a human life, especially if problems related to bias have not been resolved.\u0026rdquo;\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\u0022\u003ERead the full article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2020-11-24 20:31:15","changed_gmt":"2020-11-24 20:38:14","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Would never be part of any organization that would have me as a member","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/22\/science\/artificial-intelligence-robots-racism-police.html","dateline":{"date":"2020-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-11-22T00:00:00-05:00","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:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jason_borenstein.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":9195,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jason_borenstein.jpeg?itok=M6Xh4pXO"}}},"media_ids":["584476"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"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":""}}}