Editing Google Search (section)

=== Big data and human bias ===
Google [[Web search engine|search engine]] robots are programmed to use [[algorithm]]s that understand and predict human [[behavior]]. The book, ''Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code''<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Benjamin |first=Ruha |title=Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code |publisher=Polity Press |year=2019 |isbn=9781509526437 |location=Cambridge, UK |pages=94–95}}</ref> by [[Ruha Benjamin]] talks about human [[bias]] as a behavior that the Google search engine can recognize. In 2016, some users Google searched "three Black teenagers" and images of criminal [[Mug shot|mugshots]] of young African American teenagers came up. Then, the users searched "three White teenagers" and were presented with photos of smiling, happy teenagers. They also searched for "three Asian teenagers", and very revealing photos of Asian girls and women appeared. Benjamin concluded that these results reflect human [[prejudice]] and views on different [[ethnic group]]s. A group of analysts explained the concept of a [[Racism|racist]] computer program: "The idea here is that computers, unlike people, can't be racist but we're increasingly learning that they do in fact take after their makers&nbsp;... Some experts believe that this problem might stem from the hidden biases in the massive piles of [[data]] that the algorithms process as they learn to recognize patterns&nbsp;... reproducing our worst values".<ref name=":1" />