Tablet devices display characters and emoji during day two of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018. At the wireless industry's biggest conference, more than 100,000 people are set to see the latest smartphones, artificial intelligence devices and autonomous drones exhibited by roughly 2,300 companies. Photographer: Angel Garcia/Bloomberg
BARCELONA: Artificial intelligence could emulate human bias, including sexism, if there is no oversight on data used to create it, experts at the world’s largest mobile phone fair in Barcelona warned Thursday.
“We’re all very aware the machines will learn the same bias as those who coded them,” Emma McGuiguan, in charge of technology at consultants Accenture, said at the Mobile World Congress.
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