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by fragmede 1029 days ago
Until we decide that decisions can also be made by AI, that is.
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Plenty of people have already made the decision to delegate decisions to AI.

We generally hear about this under headlines like "man attempts to drive into ocean while following satnav" or "flash crash in stock market caused by algorithmic traders" or https://money.cnn.com/2013/03/05/smallbusiness/keep-calm-and...

> Plenty of people have already made the decision to delegate decisions to AI.

That got me thinking.

The problem is that decisions can only be made with respect to some quality metric, and deciding what that should be cannot be delegated. Only you can know what you want.
The other problem is we often say "it's common sense!" as a result of someone (or something) else following our metrics in a technically correct way that's totally not what we meant.