According to recent news, Google is
deleting all gender pronouns from its autocomplete feature in Gmail, to avoid
machine bias. Alphabet’s Google in May introduced a slick feature for its mail
service that automatically completes sentences for users as they type. However,
Google runs from gender bias.
Google’s technology will not suggest
gender-based pronouns because the risk is too high that its “Smart Compose”
technology might predict someone’s sex or gender identity incorrectly and
offend users, product leaders revealed to Reuters in interviews.
At the same time, it might mean that Google is using your personal data to help you compose a mail, which means that your privacy is not safe at all.
Indicatively, a company research scientist
discovered that the suggestions weren’t neutral. When he typed “I am meeting an
investor next week,” Smart Compose suggested: “Do you want to meet him?”
instead of “her”, mentioned in a post on MIT blog.
But the article does not refer to previous mails from that user, if he had exchanged messages with a male investor, hence Google’s machine learning did it correctly. After trying several workarounds to fix the issue, the product team decided to ban all gender pronouns from the tools’ suggestions entirely.
The way machine learning uses our data to
suggest things is not perfect yet. Our privacy and personal data are used by
artificial intelligence, in terms of picking up personalization. If we want
technology to help us, we must help it with our interests and desires.
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