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Tech industry in 2018: ML driven automation widening wealth disparity? Eh. ML ushering in the age of the persistent surveillance state? Eh. ML being used to
by bicubic 8y ago
Tech industry in 2018:
ML driven automation widening wealth disparity? Eh.
ML ushering in the age of the persistent surveillance state? Eh.
ML being used to manipulate elections and hijack democracies? Eh.
ML might auto-suggest wrong gender in a text editor? STOP. EVERYTHING. THE RISK IS TOO HIGH IT MIGHT OFFEND SOME USERS.
- whatshisface 8y agoThe connecting thread through all of them but the last is that there is some cost or difficulty to doing something about them, whereas the last is just a ticket in the bugtracker. Wouldn't it be nice for Google if all the activism in the world was directed towards things that could be solved at no cost by a junior engineer?
- scottlocklin 8y agoThis encapsulates the modern technocratic 'left' as much as anything.