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Re:I had to get a background check for my job; the report is... by BlueTemplar on Saturday February 01, 2020 @04:17PM (#22213297)
Well, I will admit that I am quite ignorant of what exactly a background check is, but I just don't see how such a morally fraught question can be legally allowed to be decided by anyone else than a psychologist.

In fact, considering the moral hazard, I don't even see how even using an AI, even as simple as "grep", helping that psychologist in the cost-minimization contexts of a private company would not result in an unacceptable slippery slope where the psychologist would end up just rubber-stamping the decisions of the AI and its creator ? Maybe someone with a dual data "science" / psychology degree would be acceptable, but I'm guessing he/she wouldn't be able to use any "black box" AI...

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Re:I had to get a background check for my job; the report is... by isoskeles on Sunday February 02, 2020 @07:02AM (#22216564)
That’s not what moral hazard means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

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Re:I had to get a background check for my job; the report is... by BlueTemplar on Monday February 03, 2020 @07:45AM (#22223645)
Right, it's probably inappropriate to use this term at this specific place in my argument.

However, in what is probably not just a coincidence, the global issue this is only one facet of is about the information asymmetry between citizens and corporations...

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