AI models tested as drivers yielded less to dark-skinned pedestrians.
Four King's College London researchers tested eight models on driving scenes where a pedestrian wanted to cross. One vision model stopped for 7 percent of fair-skinned pedestrians and none with very dark skin. Gender, age, religion and disability shifted the answers too, and GPT-4o drifted least.
Why it mattersCarmakers are testing general chatbots inside the software that decides what a car does next. The paper is a preprint, so read it as a warning about testing, not a verdict on any car.
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