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Re:How not to talk about an AI-powered future by gambiting on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @06:29AM (#15399434)
>>I believe that law should be repealed, because it would lead to fewer people dying on the roads

Citation needed.

Counter argument - vast majority of males in prison for murder in US are black. Therefore, if we stop anti-discrimination policies in US, that will lead to saving more lives. I mean, statistics don't lie!

Or, maybe, just maybe - the statistics omit a lot of data that would allow us to narrow down what makes men claim more and why there's so many black prisoners in the US?

And that brings us back to the original problem - AI can just come to a conclusion = charge men more for insurance = less accidents! Or....put more black people in prisons = less murders! And the results might be exactly what it expects, so of course it will be declared as a huge success - but it's everything but.

Re:How not to talk about an AI-powered future by rwallace on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @02:30PM (#15403015)
Do you think it should be legal for insurance companies to charge higher premiums to smokers? If so, then you agree it's okay to simply go by the statistics in some contexts, so the existence of some other contexts in which it's not, isn't a counterargument.