Re:Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?
by empath75 on Sunday February 26, 2017 @12:25PM
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I work at a huge advertising company that's using machine learning and personal information from cookies, etc. All I do is manage devops work flows. What am I supposed to do, quit? Where am I supposed to get a job with no ethical concerns?
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Re:Will Democracy Survive Big Data and Artificial Intelligence?
by dkqwj on Sunday February 26, 2017 @01:03PM
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You chose to do this. You are accepting money in exchange for a service that potentially harms other people and democratic society. Nobody is under the gun to provide you with another job in order for you to make more ethical choices.
Show concern about the data that is collected, how it is collected, how it benefits others, how it is safeguarded. Offer operational alternatives that have a lesser negative impact with comparable benefit. Challenge people to show how that their algorithms treat people equitably and don't exacerbate existing disparities. Get a job somewhere else in an industry that helps people or positively impacts society in some way. Quit and quietly wage cyber-war against your former employer from an abandoned missile silo? Just spitballing here.