As Google and other tech giants adopted the technology, no one quite realized it was learning the biases of the researchers who built it. These researchers were mostly white men, and they didn’t see the breadth of the problem until a new wave of researchers—both women and people of color—put a finger on it. As the technology spread even further, into healthcare, government surveillance, and the military, so did the ways it might go wrong. Deep learning brought a power even its designers did not completely understand how to control, particularly as it was embraced by tech superpowers driven by
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