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Re:ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI by GuB-42 on Monday March 06, 2023 @04:14AM (#35039033)
You absolutely don't need a computer to do social scoring. Computers let you take more parameters into account, and do more complex calculations, but you can do basic social scoring by hand, we have been doing that since civilization existed, in a more or less formal way. Traditionally through ancestry (and by extension, race).

And the way we prevent abuse is with anti-discrimination laws, and AI won't change the deals here. If, for example one notices that a company doesn't hire black people even though there are plenty of them applying with suitable qualifications. Regulators could step in and ask what's wrong, and I doubt "that's my AI" will be a satisfactory answer, but neither is "that's Bob".

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Re:ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI by anigbrowl on Monday March 06, 2023 @01:35PM (#35045472)
And the way we prevent abuse is with anti-discrimination laws

Have you not noticed how heavily those are contested in many jurisdictions. If you discover some way to draft legislation on morality such that it's effective, consistent, and widely accepted in a disparate population, I look forward to hearing about it. I can't wait to read about the solution to spam, scams, and discrimination deployed at industrial scale. In the meantime, it's wise to take the amplifying aspect of technology into account and consider its potential for abuse as well as for good.

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