New Delhi, April 16 In a bid to assess racial and gender bias in its artificial intelligence/machine learning systems, Twitter is starting a new initiative called Responsible Machine Learning. Terming it a long journey in its early days, Twitter said the initiative will assess any “unintentional harms” caused by its algorithms. “When Twitter uses ML, it can impact hundreds of millions of Tweets per day and sometimes, the way a system was designed to help could start to behave differently than was intended,” said Jutta Williams and Rumman Chowdhury from Twitter. “These subtle shifts can then start to impact the people using Twitter and we want to make sure we’re studying those changes and using them to build a better product,” they said in a statement late on Thursday. Twitter’s ‘Responsible ML’ working group is interdisciplinary and is made up of people from across the company, including technical, research, trust and safety, and product teams. “Leading this work is our ML Ethics, Transparency and Accountability (META) team: a dedicated group of engineers, researchers, and data scientists collaborating across the company to assess downstream or current unintentional harms in the algorithms we use and to help Twitter prioritise which issues to…
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Twitter analysing harmful impacts of its AI/ML algorithms
