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I haven't seen a single use case, or a proposition, to use AI classification on such a raw task as classifying whether someone is a criminal or not just by the
by Erlich_Bachman 7y ago
I haven't seen a single use case, or a proposition, to use AI classification on such a raw task as classifying whether someone is a criminal or not just by the photo. Any sane person would see that such an endeavor would by itself present so many problems in a society, way longer before we even get to the racist bias of a statistical distribution. So what is the danger really?
- skinner_ 7y agoProposition? Does this count as a proposition?: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114900-concerns-as-face-recognition-tech-used-to-identify-criminals/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114900-concerns-as-fac...
- Erlich_Bachman 7y agoOk yes well that one is absolutely crazy and scary. Regardless of whether there are race biases in the database.
- Enginerrrd 7y agoYeah I didn't pull that out of a hat. The specifics were arbitrary, but I chose that as a real example of systems that people already tried building. THAT'S why understanding Bayesian statistics and underlying distributions is super important to consider when you might inadvertently create biased systems.