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> Wouldn’t it do the opposite? Instead of racial profiling it’s using a system that pulls from social media. Oh there'll still be plenty racial profiling becau
by Infinitesimus 7y ago
> Wouldn’t it do the opposite? Instead of racial profiling it’s using a system that pulls from social media.
Oh there'll still be plenty racial profiling because the trained models will likely inherit these biases. Instead of a store clerk following me around, it'll be an automated system that just flags me as "high risk" and who knows what other secret feedback looks that results in.
I wish our leaders were smart enough to legally require that such services _must_ publish their accuracies and be open source.
A system like this as a for-profit business will go about as well as for-profit prisons have gone in the US.. except more subtle and sinister
- jellicle 7y agoRight, and then the discrimination is AI-washed - security personnel can say they're just following people flagged as "high risk" around the store, not discriminating, even though the "AI" mostly used skin color to add the high risk flag in the first place. Discrimination: SOLVED!
- Loughla 7y ago>trained models will likely inherit these biases. Living in middle America, I can tell you that Joe Average absolutely does not understand this. To him, based on my conversations with the people around me, AI/ML/anything sufficiently 'futuristic' sounding is without bias. To them, these models are developed in a vacuum, and using the AI label implies that the end result actually built itself, like a baby human would grow up. And this scares me.
- wolco 7y agoIt does develop an idea in a vacuum. It finds the bias and uses the best biases to explain the world.