AI glossary / Safety and trust

Bias

Safety and trust, one of the 17 words to learn first

When an AI gives unfair or skewed results because the data it learned from was unfair or skewed.

Think of it as: If you only ever read one newspaper, you'd pick up its slant too.

More words in Safety and trust

• Black boxA system where you can see what goes in and what comes out, but not clearly why it decided what it did.
• Constitutional AIA training approach where a model is taught to follow a written set of principles, its constitution.
• Content credentialsA digital label attached to a photo or video recording where it came from and whether AI was involved.
• Content moderationChecking and filtering content for things that break the rules. Increasingly done by AI, with people handling the hard cases.
• CopyrightThe legal right creators have over their work. Whether AI companies may train on copyrighted material without permission is being fought over in courts worldwide.