Decoding AI Bias: How First Principles Meet Systems Thinking

Navigating the Intricacies of AI Ethics, Bias, and Design Using Foundational and Holistic Strategies

Over the years, I’ve thought long and hard about what AI is.

Here we have the ability to replicate or outsource aspects of our own intelligence in a non-biological sense. That’s what fascinates people most about AI — regardless of their background — and that’s why it’s a topic that has the ability to move or affect us all.

Something the philosopher Karl Popper said resonated with me many moons ago:

“I think that there is only one way to science — or to philosophy, for that matter: to meet a problem, to see its beauty and fall in love with it; to get married to it and to live with it happily, till death do ye part — unless you should meet another and even more fascinating problem or unless, indeed, you should obtain a solution. But even if you do obtain a solution, you may then discover, to your delight, the existence of a whole family of enchanting, though perhaps…