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Congrats Amsterdam: they funded a worthy and feasible project; put appropriate ethical guardrails in place; iterated scientifically; then didn’t deploy when the

Congrats Amsterdam: they funded a worthy and feasible project; put appropriate ethical guardrails in place; iterated scientifically; then didn’t deploy when they couldn’t achieve a result that satisfied their guardrails. We need more of this in the world.

tbrownaw 1y ago
What were the error rates for the various groups with the old process? Was the new process that included the model actually worse for any group, or was it just uneven in how much better it was?
jaoane 1y ago
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- nxobject 1y ago
  > because I don't even need to look at the data to know that some groups are more likely to commit fraud. That is by definition prejudice: bias without evidence. Perhaps they want to avoid that.
  - jaoane 1y ago
    Thankfully, this project got evidence. Unfortunately, it was shelved.