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by kafrofrite 922 days ago
IIRC, in [1] it mentioned a few examples of AI that exhibited the same bias that is currently present in the judicial system, banks etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction

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This is honestly what scares me the most. Our biases are built in to AI, but we pretend they're not. People will say "Well, it was the algorithm/AI, so we can't change it". Which is just awful and should scare the shit out of everyone. There was a book [0] written almost fifty years ago that predicted this. I still haven't read it, but really need to. The author claims it made him a pariah among other AI researchers at the time.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Power_and_Human_Reaso...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue while not about AI directly and supposedly satirical really captures how the system works.