Don't Rely on Diversity in Tech to Fix AI Ethics · Alexa Jakob

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I went to Night of Ideas, a yearly series of philosophy lectures held in 20 cities across the United States. This year’s theme was “More?”, and I attended the lecture titled “ChatGPT, the Metaverse, and AI: How will they be affecting education?”. It was insightful - as a general rule, I’m skeptical of hype surrounding new technologies like ChatGPT, and I want us to be thoughtful about how they’re implemented - but Prof Katz detailed some realistic ways that ChatGPT could ease the burden of educators, for example by drafting response to parent emails and creating associated follow-up tasks. Both sections (ChatGPT and the metaverse) addressed the pressing issue of bias in AI, but the solution presented was a more diverse tech workforce, the idea being that more women working on ChatGPT will make it less sexist, and so on. I find this idea - that more diversity in tech will be a silver bullet for non- or anti-biased AI - very common in tech spaces, and I’m skeptical. ChatGPT and other lar

Don't Rely on Diversity in Tech to Fix AI Ethics · Alexa Jakob © 2025. MIT License. 05 Mar 2023 • Blog I went to Night of Ideas , a yearly series of philosophy lectures held in 20 cities across the United States. This year’s theme was “More?”, and I attended the lecture titled “ChatGPT, the Metaverse, and AI: How will they be affecting education?”. It was insightful - as a general rule, I’m skeptical of hype surrounding new technologies like ChatGPT, and I want us to be thoughtful about how they’re implemented - but Prof Katz detailed some realistic ways that ChatGPT could eas

Don't Rely on Diversity in Tech to Fix AI Ethics · Alexa Jakob

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