Re:Machine learning is fundamentally conservative
by YeGoblynQueenne on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:54PM
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>> Why on earth would we expect AI descision making to display a lack of prejudice when human decision making is suffused with it.
According to the article, that is how AI decision making is presented by "technocrats everywhere". For instance:
Empiricism-washing is the top ideological dirty trick of technocrats everywhere: they assert that the data “doesn’t lie,” and thus all policy prescriptions based on data can be divorced from “politics” and relegated to the realm of “evidence.”
The article is presenting, and supporting, the opposite opinion to that of "technocrats everywhere".
According to the article, that is how AI decision making is presented by "technocrats everywhere". For instance:
Empiricism-washing is the top ideological dirty trick of technocrats everywhere: they assert that the data “doesn’t lie,” and thus all policy prescriptions based on data can be divorced from “politics” and relegated to the realm of “evidence.”
The article is presenting, and supporting, the opposite opinion to that of "technocrats everywhere".