SELF-DRIVING "RACIST" CARS ARE ON THE WAY

White people have evolved complex systems to avoid "racism." In fact, they have been so successful at this that a lot of them have basically gone the other way into outright racial masochism, self-destruction, and worship of other races. 

With tech, however, it is a different story. As we saw three years ago, when Microsoft launched an A.I. chatbot called Tay, technology is about as politically correct as an SS reunion. 

Remember this?

Luckily for non-Whites, Tay was just a harmless chatbot that couldn't actually harm anyone. 

But as more and more of the economic infrastructure is automated and computerised, the potential for "racist tech" to run amok increases. 

The latest example of the "inherent racism" of tech are the AI systems now being developed for driverless cars. Soon these will be everywhere, putting millions out of work but also posing a threat to innocent pedestrians. 

A recent study by the Georgia Institute of Technology looked at eight state-of-the-art AI object detection systems and found that they ALL discriminate negatively against people of colour. 

As reported by tech site Futurism:

They tested these models using images of pedestrians divided into two categories based on their score on the Fitzpatrick scale, which is commonly used to classify human skin color.

According to the researchers’ paper, the models exhibited “uniformly poorer performance” when confronted with pedestrians with the three darkest shades on the scale.

On average, the models’ accuracy decreased by 5 percent when examining the group containing images of pedestrians with darker skin tones, even when the researchers accounted for variables such as whether the photo was taken during the day or at night.

The Georgia Tech team’s research suggests that we could be on a path to a future in which a world rife with autonomous cars isn’t as safe for people with dark skin tones as it is for lighter-skinned pedestrians.

It is not clear how this problem can be fixed. One possible solution could be to require all darker-skinned people to wear special, brighter clothing that would make it easier for automated vehicles to identify and locate them, or to fit the vehicles with a special safety apparatus on the front, rather like the "cow catcher" on 19th-century American steam trains, to either catch or deflect any humans unfortunate enough not to be detected by the object detection systems.