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I thought my comment was pretty clear. Most of the tools for trying to extract information about people by how they write is helpful. An example from the list i
by apostacy 6y ago
I thought my comment was pretty clear. Most of the tools for trying to extract information about people by how they write is helpful. An example from the list is "Gender Detection from Names" under the "Discrimination" heading.
And then I gave several examples and an explanation. But to reiterate, tools that help us increase our understand of society are helpful, and can be used for good.
The list assumes that a tool that can help discern someone's gender will and can only be used to treat someone unfairly. But a researcher could just as well use exactly the same tools to analyze the gender composition of a set of people, for the purposes of advocating for them.
FOR EXAMPLE, in this repo:
https://github.com/waterdatacollaborative/Get-the-Lead-Out https://github.com/waterdatacollaborative/Get-the-Lead-Out
What if a researcher were to use data mining tools to find out more information about the children most impacted by lead in the water, for the purposes of helping them. (And some have)
Is that an "awful" use of AI?
I would assert that actually yes some of these tools are quite helpful.