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Gonna go ahead and say this outright: machine learning is money laundering for responsibility

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(As well as, as is well established by someone with a more original wit than me, being money laundering for responsibility)

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A regular computer program is written by someone. It goes wrong, you blame the coders. "Machine learning" is written by an omnipotent blank

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"Nobody wrote it! It wrote itself! All we did was select the raw data and write the procedure it used to do that."

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"God did it."

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It's marketing. It's ineffable. It's the same dull informational plumbing we've been doing this whole time but with extra steps.

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When a human reaches the age of majority, broadly, they, not their parents/guardians, become responsible for their actions

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(I'm not a lawyer so that statement was probably wrong in eighty ways in every jurisdiction but bear with me)

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Computer programs are not adults yet. When you construct a program, you are responsible for its behaviour. Or should be.

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How wrong am I?

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pretty right - generally actions get harder to attribute the less legible the path between you and the results is

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good luck I'm behind seven moral agents responding to incentives

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a free moral agent in your chain introduces a lot of illegibility, or alternatively accepts responsibility (they "could've prevented it")

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our machines are not quite full moral agents yet but they're getting there

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