Twitter says its bias bounty is an industry first and hopes other companies will follow suit.
The competition is intended to help Twitter’s internal efforts.
“We want to start cultivating and creating a community of ethical AI hackers.”
Tackling algorithmic bias has become an increasingly important concern for technology.
Twitter’s project is designed to solidify standards around ideas likerepresentational harm.
That helps with messy tasks like understanding speech, screening spam and identifying your face to unlock your phone.
The algorithms that power AI, however, can be opaque and reflect problems in training data.
That’s led to problems likeGoogle mistakenly labeling Black people as gorillasin photos.
StartupHackerOneis helping to run Twitter’s algorithmic bias bounty competition,sharing rules and accepting submissions.
The deadline for entries is 11:59 p.m. PT on Aug. 6, and Twitter will announce winners Aug. 8.
For the moment, Twitter’s bias bounty is limited to its cropping algorithm.
