[eloisius]

>would have been racist if there was anything causing the association other than bad modeling

Yes, I know how machine learning works.

In the future if "sets stochastic associations" end up putting a few more of one kind of people behind bars, or automated security sentries misidentify a certain group of people's behavior as threatening more often than others, do we just say "oh, it's not actually a racist robot that subdued your teenager because he was X, you see it's just a result of poor modeling and a set of stochastic processes ended up determining that he was displaying aggression"?

The machine is not intending to do anything, least of all "be" racist, but it is a racist invention if a product makes it into the wild labeling Black people gorillas.

*Edit because this AI answered it pretty well itself:

> Can AI be racist?

> if it is programmed to discriminate