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> • You won’t necessarily know anything about the decisions that affect your rights, like whether you get a loan, a job, or if a car runs over you. Things will
by afarrell 11y ago
> • You won’t necessarily know anything about the decisions that affect your rights, like whether you get a loan, a job, or if a car runs over you. Things will get decided by data-crunching computer algorithms and no human will really be able to understand why.
This isn't a change from the current state of things. For a hundred years, each of these decisions have been made by neural networks which we scarcely understand.
- admax88q 11y agoAt least these are neural networks that we can hold accountable for their actions. Networks that exist in a single physical space easily detained when need be. Not to mention that they can usually explain their reasoning and behind a decision. Machine learning algorithms can't do that.
- afarrell 11y ago1) Holding someone accountable isn't actually useful unless it changes behavior. 2) They can come up with an explanation, but not usually an accurate one. We are used to giving offhand answers to neurology questions because parents angrily ask them of their children all the time. But the answers we give aren't truth-seeking they are punishment-avoiding.
- kijin 11y agoSure, but each of those neural networks has a face and (hopefully) a conscience. If we want to understand them better, we can ask them, sue them, pay them, shoot them, or do any of the thousands of other things we normally do with other people. Good luck doing that with the algorithm used by a Google car to determine which pedestrian to hit.