Day 223 - 7:13pm, 12 August 2019
Everyone should read Caroline Criado Perez's eye-opening book Invisible Women. The book exposes the gender bias in data sets and why not including women in data sets can have serious consequences, from missed opportunities to diagnose heart attacks in women to greater odds of dying or being seriously injured in a car crash. In a world largely designed by and for 'reference man', and where AI is learning from these skewed data sets, Caroline points out, while never losing her humour or seeking to attribute blame, just how sexist the man-made world is. (Yes, she shows how even snow clearing can be sexist!) And, once she points it out and you see it for yourself, there is no unseeing it. But as knowledge is power that has to be a good thing.
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