Artificially Racist
How artificial intelligence is harming the Black community
As an intellectual property lawyer for my day job, I’ve been dialed into the technology known as artificial intelligence (AI) for some time now.
I got my first glimpse 40 years ago as a teenager when a company released an AI program for my Atari computer. It wasn’t ChatGPT, but you could input a conversational query into the computer, and the computer would spit back a basic level of interaction.
Over a decade later, in 1997, IBM’s AI program, “Deep Blue,” defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov.
I never imagined in the 1980s or even ’90s that AI would eventually allow a machine to navigate the surface of a planet or the moon on its own, allow military drones to speak with each other and coordinate an attack without human intervention, or even generate pictures of a former president praying in church with six fingers on each hand.
Companies are using AI for customer service, blog posts, phone calls, and newsletters more quickly and at a lower…
