> It doesn't really matter to possible victims of, say, the use of AI in law enforcement where exactly the problem originates. I cannot believe that so many pe

> It doesn't really matter to possible victims of, say, the use of AI in law enforcement where exactly the problem originates. I cannot believe that so many people fall for this. Journalists, laypeople, even HN users. (OK not that surprised regarding journalists.) The problem is not racial bias in AI policing. The problem is AI policing! Racial (and any other) bias is trivial to remove - just subtract the mean! But that doesn’t make predictive policing a good idea. Imagine this: > Hello, mister/lady, our 100% unbiased system has automatically determined that you are a potential future criminal. You are under arrest and sentenced to death. (Edit: and same could be said for almost any situation where you have a bureaucrat making decisions about people’s lives, and you try to automate this decision with AI.)