The unintended biases in tech isn't new, but generative AI could mean this becomes an even more damaging issue. One use of AI on the rise comes from CV scraping and gatekeeping for job interviews, which can also include recruiters using chatbots and pre-recorded interviews to enable an AI to decide if a person should progress for a job.
An AI is trained on data, real world data inputted by humans with human biases. An AI can also be trained by scraping information from a company's previous recruitments. So, if a company has a history of not employing women, well it's AI won't change the status quo.
The issue of identity and bias in AI is being tackled, but it's a major concern. The artists Adaeze Okaro, Serwah Attafuah and Jah are part of Feral File's upcoming show, In/Visible, that aims to shine a light on the 'significant gaps in training data which precipitates a flattened representation of the Black identity'.