Kaust “dear Ai” Campaign Targets Gender Bias In Ai

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is launching ‘Dear AI,’ an International Women’s Day campaign and hackathon to tackle gender bias and the under-representation of women, Saudi, and Arab people in AI software. The campaign is a response to a KAUST search of a popular AI imaging software tool which returned an average of 1% women when using the prompts ‘imagine entrepreneur,’ ‘imagine inventor,’ and ‘imagine software engineer.’ The results highlight the biases in neural networks and raise questions about how they are trained.