One of the first good critiques of the "oncoming AI apocalypse" that I've seen is exactly this: the encoding of existing biases into the resulting AI system. B

One of the first good critiques of the "oncoming AI apocalypse" that I've seen is exactly this: the encoding of existing biases into the resulting AI system. But, it also means that bias is now measurable... ...and there were more than a few papers at NIPS that were directly dealing with "fairness" in a NN, aimed at addressing and using these issues and effects.