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The title is misleading -- few or none of the examples given in this article, as far as I can tell, use AI or machine learning. They're just "automated systems"
by AlanYx 7y ago
The title is misleading -- few or none of the examples given in this article, as far as I can tell, use AI or machine learning. They're just "automated systems" in the sense of computer systems that execute regular business rules. For example, the system at issue in the K.W. v. Armstrong case discussed in the article wasn't an AI system, it was just a pretty amateurish ad-hoc Excel spreadsheet.
The report quoted in the article (the 2019 AI Now "Litigating Algorithms" report) also shares the same basic problem, making no serious attempt to distinguish between AI and non-AI systems.
- kbenson 7y agoIt might be the title is too narrow then, not that it doesn't apply to AI/ML. I imagine anything that applies to an automated system or algorithm will also apply to AI/ML, as those are just very sophisticated examples of that.
- tensor 7y agoI think they shouldn't distinguish. The basic problem is the same whether AI or otherwise.