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by forapurpose
2954 days ago
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> People die from cars that are badly designed. People don't die from facebook (yes I'm sure you can find some contrived example.) I think the public, and much of HN, disagrees and is beginning to believe that the lack of privacy is undermining democracy, liberty, and human rights. |
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There are actually some historic examples. A university once performed scientific research on a minority group. Then the Nazis acquired the list and murdered the participants.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwiss...
Obviously that's at risk of happening again, but machine learning and AI are risk of learning to be discriminatory by training on data sets resulting from historic and modern discrimination.
When applying for jobs, it may be possible to enter somebody's info into a next generation background check software to get a % probability of the candidate voting for a specific political party, and declining to call/interview based on that alone.
Even when it's not intentionally discriminatory, this is leading to a future where the teller says "sorry, you were declined. I don't really know why, the computer just made the decision". Where's the accountability?
In credit reports, I can at least request my credit report and understand how to improve my score or dispute line items.