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Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score by temp626 on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:30PM (#21446704)
Humans are not much better gatekeepers. Studies have shown that for example having certain name can be serious disadvantage when applying for work.

Algorithms can be bad as well, but at least you can look into them to understand the reasons.

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Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score by bradknowles on Monday November 04, 2019 @06:39PM (#21447976)
Maybe. They can also be inscrutable.

And that's just basic algorithms and regular human-written code.

Then you've got ML systems which are a whole 'nother level of inscrutable.

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Re:I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score by carlmr on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:05PM (#21449224)
Or buggy. We're already running plenty of buggy code, but at least the errors can usually be found. If an AI overflows on some intermediate calculation sometimes because of implementation error I'm almost sure nobody will find that.
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