Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race, and Power in AI

This report from AI Now Institute can help you understand the diversity crises in the AI industry and the risk of bias it creates for those using AI tools. The report explains how AI tools suffer from systemic (gender and racial) bias, and quantifies the large and stagnant workforce diversity imbalance in the field of AI. It explains how this lack of diversity creates biased AI systems that negatively impact under-represented groups. It also explains the lack of progress made by existing efforts to address the issue, and provides recommendations for taking a new approach. This report will be most useful to IT, sustainability, and HR teams, or anyone implementing or developing AI tools.