(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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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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I suppose I was thinking more in abstract terms. I definitely think whoever wrote the learning algorithm for that would be responsible.
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