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Re:Are you a 'cultural fit' for your job? Machines can now tell by wtvanhest on Monday March 02, 2020 @11:52PM (#22471880)
It also depends on your definition of intent. If you knowingly implement a system with flaws that make it systematically racist, you have intended to be racist.
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Re:Are you a 'cultural fit' for your job? Machines can now tell by ghettoimp on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:25AM (#22472043)
Hrmn. This makes it sound like you can only implement a systematically racist system if you are overtly/intentionally trying to be racist.

I suspect in many cases, folks who implement racist systems simply do not care whether their system is racist or not. They want to optimize/automate whatever it is that they are about, and if the result is unfair, well, that's just someone else's problem.

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Re:Are you a 'cultural fit' for your job? Machines can now tell by wtvanhest on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @10:22AM (#22475111)
That is why I said ‘knowingly’
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