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> Though our business practices are designed to mitigate many of these risks, if we enable or offer AI solutions that are controversial because of their purport
by manicdee 6y ago
> Though our business practices are designed to mitigate many of these risks, if we enable or offer AI solutions that are controversial because of their purported or real impact on human rights, privacy, employment or other social issues, we may experience brand or reputational harm.
As an example of the kinds of things that AI does when you don't know what you're doing: classifying black people as criminals because your law enforcement system polices black neighbourhoods more heavily, is more likely to arrest black people and is more likely to convict black people, and all your training data came from sampling populations in jails.
As an example of the kinds of things that you are careful not to do yourself but you have no control over when a customer applies your tools to their problems: criminals ram-raiding supermarkets using your cars, or overzealous federal departments using AI to assist in mass surveillance of citizens.
As an example of the kinds of things you are careful to not disclose but feel okay to do anyway: IBM helping the Nazi Party target Jews using census data.
So it's up to you as an investor to figure out whether Palantir is warning investors of future hazards, or advising investors that there are actually human rights violations happening right now that Palantir are well aware of, and it's only a matter of time before the cat is let out of the bag.