CHAPTER 8

Bending Acts of Government to Selfish Purpose

Artificial Intelligence Governance exemplifies new roles generated by AI. Mutale Nkonde is an expert in the area. She self-styles as a spiritual descendant of Ida B. Wells, the anti-lynching journalist and activist. Nkonde is in the business of providing evidence of AI bias to introduce legislation protecting the digital civil rights of African Americans.

She worries AI cannot read social context, yet it should develop to meet the needs of all humanity. Her message? AI is here and is racist.

She begins with human resources gathered by AI as it passes through Adaptation. The Google AI research site lists 893 people working on “machine intelligence” of which one is an African American woman, ...

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