Enough with this stupid "left-wing" versus "right-wing" dichotomy, it doesn't mean anything any more and has not done so for a long time. Many so-called left-wi

Enough with this stupid "left-wing" versus "right-wing" dichotomy, it doesn't mean anything any more and has not done so for a long time. Many so-called left-wingers call anything which does not fit with their world "right-wing" no matter whether that thing is seen as "left-wing" by the rest of the world or not. Other so-called right-wingers consider anything which does not abide by the God-Mother-Apple pie holy trifecta "Communist" no matter what the thing is in reality. Depending on where you stand the terms "left-wing" and "right-wing" means either "good, virtuous" or "bad, vile". Yes, machine learning can become a threat by brainwashing the population because it can get personal with individuals where propagandists were limited at broadcasting their message to the crowd. A biased ML-based search engine will give biased answers, a biased ML-based personal tutor for schoolchildren will brainwash them, biased ML-based medical expert systems will have the power to change the demography of the population, biased ML-based voting systems are a match made in hell for those who are intent on using these systems in such a way. The added power of machine learning is that these systems can target individuals instead of groups. It doesn't matter whether the systems are biased towards pushing "critical theories", "patriotism", some "young earth hypothesis", "scientism", "objectivism", "anarcho-communism" or whatever other ideological bent you can come up with - given sufficiently advanced models they'll be able to spread the word to the masses, one by one. What can help against this onslaught of personalised precision propaganda which is fairly likely to come sooner rather than later? An equally advanced bias detector, factory-sealed with a no-tamper seal and a stamp of approval by the National Institute for Neutral Standards? Equal access to otherwise-biased systems which get to fight for every scrap of attention of their victims? An intermediate which takes input from many models and presents the results with detected bias vectors? Good questions, let's get working on some solutions without wondering whether an old salon socialist fart like Bernie Sanders or a nouveau riche captain of industry like Elon Musk says something about it.