Re:Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention...
by calvinmorrison on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:46PM
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And a automatic metrics based firing system is probably much fairer than a human. Hard to sue for discrimination when you can prove with code it was based on metrics.
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Re:Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention...
by malcolmgreaves on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:55PM
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Actually, it will be easier to show any labor law violations with an automated system. Any kind of wrongful termination or bias will be easy to show in the logs.
Note that getting a computer to do something doesn't make it unbiased. People can, and often do, write bias into programs.
Re:Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention...
by croes on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:59PM
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Fairer? You mean like Amazons AI recruiting system that was biased against women?
You can simply put discrimination into every metric.
Re:Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention...
by retrac on Monday June 28, 2021 @03:58PM
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And easy to prove when you can show a correlation like the employee being black results in being downrated. Code and especially machine learning systems happily encode our own biases.