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I'm considering submitting a project that would fit well under this category. Have any ideas around what could be done to mitigate the involved risks?

unlinked_dll 7y ago
stop?
- adnzzzzZ 7y ago
  If you believe yourself to be an ethical person then you want to build companies like those yourself rather than stop, since you can be sure that you'll do your best to handle data properly while providing the world with that service. In the case of the Big 5 there are not many companies I know of that are providing the service as proposed in the article so you would have a chance to set standards and expectations around what is or isn't acceptable.
  - bathtub365 7y ago
    Doesn’t this assume that it’s ethical to use data-driven psychometric profiling and targeting with the aim to increase profit?
    - curtisgiddings 7y ago
      What if those originally submitting the data could share in the profits?
      - knolax 7y ago
        I'll shoot you in the leg but I'll give you back 10% of your hospital bills out of the 20% kickback I get from the hospital.
        curtisgiddings 7y ago
        I'm thinking more along the lines of get shot in the leg and we'll cover everything and pay you out even more, but even your proposed scenario still seems better than the current situation of getting shot in the leg with nothing to show for it.
  - bastawhiz 7y ago
    While the data might be handled responsibly, what you're suggesting assumes that inferring personality traits as a business model can be used for ethical purposes. I think there's a fair number of people on here that would say that trying to guess a person's personality based on their media consumption or otherwise is implicitly unethical no matter how you do it, since it's in support of the monetization of another person's emotions. The output of such a system is used to manipulate a person (making purchases, drive them towards a political position, make them a more productive employee, etc) or it's a sham and the data is bogus. In either case, there's a compelling argument to be made that this system's creator is not doing a good thing.
    - lowercased 7y ago
      > since it's in support of the monetization of another person's emotions that seems to describe close to 100% of commerce.

unlinked_dll 7y ago

stop?

adnzzzzZ 7y ago
If you believe yourself to be an ethical person then you want to build companies like those yourself rather than stop, since you can be sure that you'll do your best to handle data properly while providing the world with that service. In the case of the Big 5 there are not many companies I know of that are providing the service as proposed in the article so you would have a chance to set standards and expectations around what is or isn't acceptable.
- bathtub365 7y ago
  Doesn’t this assume that it’s ethical to use data-driven psychometric profiling and targeting with the aim to increase profit?
  - curtisgiddings 7y ago
    What if those originally submitting the data could share in the profits?
    - knolax 7y ago
      I'll shoot you in the leg but I'll give you back 10% of your hospital bills out of the 20% kickback I get from the hospital.
      - curtisgiddings 7y ago
        I'm thinking more along the lines of get shot in the leg and we'll cover everything and pay you out even more, but even your proposed scenario still seems better than the current situation of getting shot in the leg with nothing to show for it.
- bastawhiz 7y ago
  While the data might be handled responsibly, what you're suggesting assumes that inferring personality traits as a business model can be used for ethical purposes. I think there's a fair number of people on here that would say that trying to guess a person's personality based on their media consumption or otherwise is implicitly unethical no matter how you do it, since it's in support of the monetization of another person's emotions. The output of such a system is used to manipulate a person (making purchases, drive them towards a political position, make them a more productive employee, etc) or it's a sham and the data is bogus. In either case, there's a compelling argument to be made that this system's creator is not doing a good thing.
  - lowercased 7y ago
    > since it's in support of the monetization of another person's emotions that seems to describe close to 100% of commerce.