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Re:Tell HN: Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tel... by fxtentacle on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:16AM (#34053796)
... and this is why I'm so glad that the EU is seriously planning an AI law which will grant consumers the right to appeal against an AI decision and request a human to explain the decision.

And if you use an AI for high-stakes decisions and you can't explain why it decided a certain way, you'll get sued into the ground similar to how the GDPR made it conveniently easy to force international megacorps to delete your data and stop spamming you.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52...

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Re:Tell HN: Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tel... by bell-cot on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:02PM (#34054450)
IANAL...but how does an "AI" law help, if (say) Uber is blocking accounts based on something far too simple to call an "AI"?

   if( ( Coefficient1*RiskFactor1 + Coefficient2*RiskFactor2 + ... ) / ProfitPotential3 ) > CutoffNumber )
      BanAccount = true;
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Re:Tell HN: Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tel... by fxtentacle on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:47PM (#34055049)
It's still an automated decision, so I would assume the new law to grant you a right to discuss this with a human who will explain what the risk factors were.
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