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Re:There’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’ by ekianjo on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:25AM (#23210301)
> The damage caused is the same in both cases though, and it shouldn't take a team of independent researchers to prevent Google from shipping racist products.

Your comment reads like "company X should not be shipping products with issues affecting users" - as long as it was not intentional and they take corrective actions, things are working as well as they can.

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Re:There’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’ by coddle-hark on Sunday May 17, 2020 @05:27AM (#23210801)
With that logic we shouldn't need clinical trials for drugs or food additives either. Just ship it, if someone gets hurt we'll sort it out later!

At this point it's well known that unfair biases can easily creep into these kind of systems. I don't think it's unreasonable to require products that could potentially cause much harm (e.g. online censoring, scoring CVs, vetting loan applications) to be tested for fairness before letting them loose on the public.

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