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When an algorithm cuts your healthcare
- wealthbyhealth 9y agoNo one wants to discuss this since it paints a picture of the ultimate downside potential of the tech industry and related disciplines. Being a practitioner of ‘magic’ (e.g. ML, NLP, complex software solutions more generally) is certainly the new sexy, but when we shunt the negative externalities of our fancy new black/grey boxes onto others without the willingness or ability to justify a system’s behavior, the blowback from this kind of negligence is most definitely going to be un-sexy (and well-earned). In another context, we might label this kind of unsupported decision-making a kangaroo court.