Re:Amazon defeated Rekognition shareholder revolt by a large...
by JohnFen on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:09PM
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Testing the results of the algorithms doesn't address the problem of institutional racism, though. Any bureaucracy will simply use the results that the algorithm supplies in a way that maintains the behavior that the bureaucracy is already programmed to maintain.
To address things like institutional racism, you have to change the institution. That's a human problem for which there is no technological solution (although technology can certainly be one of the tools used to create a larger change).
To address things like institutional racism, you have to change the institution. That's a human problem for which there is no technological solution (although technology can certainly be one of the tools used to create a larger change).