Gonna go ahead and say this outright: machine learning is money laundering for responsibility
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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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What about code I don't really agree with, but boss says I make it do that thing anyway.
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Ethics!
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pretty right - generally actions get harder to attribute the less legible the path between you and the results ishttps://twitter.com/RuleOfFlaw/status/901929768135905281 …
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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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I would tell you, but I have to ask a machine first.
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Bang on. Your company is no less racist because your "algorithm" gave "mosque" a different score based on your shitty training set
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I would say the behavior made is irrelevant until applied somewhere, so the person making that decision is responsible
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I'm just gonna write a program which sorts black people from white people, it's nothing to do with me who uses it or what for
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Good testing and behavior analysis is how you ensure that an ML algorithm is behaving properly. However, any complex system, not just ML,
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is going to have weird edge cases. It's just a matter of reducing the likelihood. With ML, you need to have unbiased data.
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