Previously: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_test_(South_Africa) …https://twitter.com/geoffwhite247/status/994998863806324741 …
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"Technology isn't inherently good or evil. It's how it's used. Like the death ray"
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People are all like "wait, Arabic isn't an ethnicity" because THAT's the problem with the apartheid machine, that it gives incorrect results
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Astonishingly, the machine which sifts black people from white was created by people without a solid understanding of race and ethnicity
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It is completely academic whether a machine/algorithm used for bigotry "works" or not
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Humans select the training data, humans writing the training harness, humans train the machine, humans decide when the machine is trained, humans put the machine in place, humans use the machine to gather data, humans use the data to make decisions, humans act on the decisions
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I guess I've been thinking about this a lot latelyhttps://twitter.com/qntm/status/910275309316042754 …
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