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wrong. AI bias is going to be a huge problem when morons in court systems start using it to convict people, or businesses use it for hiring decisions or firing

wrong. AI bias is going to be a huge problem when morons in court systems start using it to convict people, or businesses use it for hiring decisions or firing decisions not only from the stupidity but since there are some shreds of the civil rights laws of the 1960s still active, AI companies could be liable for de-facto racist decisions that they informed.

charcircuit 3y ago
>morons in court systems start using it to convict people Those "morons" are also biased. >businesses use it for hiring decisions or firing decisions If businesses realize the AI is doing a bad job with hiring unqualified people they will not use it for hiring.
- klodolph 3y ago
  Most businesses are not very good at figuring out if they are hiring the right people.
XorNot 3y ago
"Start"?[1,2] The problem I have with every discussion of AI risk is that people seem terminally underinformed on what is actual reality now, or why some risk is a risk. "AI" isn't a problem which can destroy the legal system: because it takes regular human institutions to allow such a miscarriage of justice. Which as noted, they started doing, are still doing. So you get this weird "perpetual future" perspective where everything "AI" is going to do is solely something that the technology will cause, not its users, and the solution is always to prevent the technology existing rather then fix the system - as though the US and other jurisdictions don't have long history's of injustice for all sorts of groups. The problems aren't new, and the solutions have nothing to do with whether you can create predictive algorithms. And "oh but what about the scale..." is just a declaration that you're aware of the problem but were pretty sure it wouldn't happen to you - because absolutely nothing else prior actually prevented it except the social privilege you inherited which means you could ignore it. [1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithms-criminal-justice-ai/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm... [2] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/police-violence-prediction-ndas https://www.wired.co.uk/article/police-violence-prediction-n...

charcircuit 3y ago

>morons in court systems start using it to convict people Those "morons" are also biased. >businesses use it for hiring decisions or firing decisions If businesses realize the AI is doing a bad job with hiring unqualified people they will not use it for hiring.

klodolph 3y ago
Most businesses are not very good at figuring out if they are hiring the right people.

XorNot 3y ago

"Start"?[1,2] The problem I have with every discussion of AI risk is that people seem terminally underinformed on what is actual reality now, or why some risk is a risk. "AI" isn't a problem which can destroy the legal system: because it takes regular human institutions to allow such a miscarriage of justice. Which as noted, they started doing, are still doing. So you get this weird "perpetual future" perspective where everything "AI" is going to do is solely something that the technology will cause, not its users, and the solution is always to prevent the technology existing rather then fix the system - as though the US and other jurisdictions don't have long history's of injustice for all sorts of groups. The problems aren't new, and the solutions have nothing to do with whether you can create predictive algorithms. And "oh but what about the scale..." is just a declaration that you're aware of the problem but were pretty sure it wouldn't happen to you - because absolutely nothing else prior actually prevented it except the social privilege you inherited which means you could ignore it. [1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithms-criminal-justice-ai/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/01/21/137783/algorithm... [2] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/police-violence-prediction-ndas https://www.wired.co.uk/article/police-violence-prediction-n...