Re:How a Machine Learns Prejudice
by steveeq1 on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:30PM
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(quote by some guy named "oehead2000" on some other hacker news posting. It fit the context perfectly, so I am copying and pasting from his reply)
"Unfortunately whatever algorithm computers come up with to assess creditworthiness is going to be 'racist' by the broad disparate impact definition of racism that the government uses. Ironically, the algorithms will have to be made actually racist to correct for this."
"Unfortunately whatever algorithm computers come up with to assess creditworthiness is going to be 'racist' by the broad disparate impact definition of racism that the government uses. Ironically, the algorithms will have to be made actually racist to correct for this."