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This sounds like the start of a chapter in "Weapons of Math Destruction", but the "and then this bad unforeseen consequence occurred" half of the chapter is wai
by sbf501 4y ago
This sounds like the start of a chapter in "Weapons of Math Destruction", but the "and then this bad unforeseen consequence occurred" half of the chapter is waiting to be written.
I agree that AI "could" help remove bias, not to beat a dead horse, but it is subject to its own training bias. Maybe I'm stuck in 2018 NN models, and newer model authors and trainers are far more aware of that. But this seems like an extremely risky place to put AI.
Not to be glib, but IMHO the biggest obstacle to diversity in the workplace is people who think "diversity in the workplace" is some kind of ideological conspiracy that is out to undermine them personally.
- kypro 4y ago> "diversity in the workplace" is some kind of ideological conspiracy that is out to undermine them personally. It doesn't have to be a conspiracy to be unfair. At my place the leadership team spend about 30 minutes every week complaining about the number of old white people who work at the company. I'm not saying this is true of all companies, but I think the issue is often that leadership pushes diversity in such a way that makes people feel excluded.
- Manuel_D 4y agoMy previous workplaces straight up reserved headcount for "diverse" candidates. In other words, we prohibited white and Asian men from a segment of our available headcount. There is no singular type of diversity initiative. Perhaps there are some that implement blind hiring to eliminate bias, or other methods of increasing diversity by eliminating bias. But I've never encountered one, in my experience there all just good old fashioned discriminatory hiring practices once you get past the effusive language.