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by tagyro 1004 days ago
> Humans seem more subject to bias than algorithms are.

One might think that, but algorithms are built by humans, so they (algorithms) automatically have the same biases as the humans that built them.

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That doesn't follow.

If I'm a chemist, and I write an algorithm to do something related to chemistry, that algorithm does not "automatically" know everything I know about chemistry.

Bias works the same way.

I think there's a case to be made that data contains bias, ie. previous arrests, encoding the bias of the past arresting officer, but the algorithms don't contain bias. Unless you could explain how logistic regression is biased.