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Re:EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “righ... by yoo1I on Thursday July 07, 2016 @10:53AM (#12049663)
But the algorithm enshrines and possibly amplifies it. Or as the old saying goes:

> To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.

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Re:EU regulations on algorithmic decision-making and a “righ... by Symmetry on Thursday July 07, 2016 @11:24AM (#12049894)
Humans have much more potential for racism in making predictions about the future than in judging things that have already happened. So while I agree that racism through biased input data is a problem, I think that even with that problem machines should be substantially less racist in their judgement than the humans they're replacing even if they're not perfect.
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