That's funny, I think of you is a technical person. Or at least, one who is technically competent.
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I suspect the definition in this case includes something like, "run by powerful people who are unchecked and may not have my best interests at heart." which, if so, would be quite a burden to put on one word.
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I think these concerns map very well onto concerns about databases a generation ago. They might mis-spell your name, or you might share a name with a criminal, and you could never reach a human to override the mistake, and you’d get ground up by people obeying the computer.
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Well there were scary stories about that from back then. It didn’t totally happen that way, but we’ve actually had versions of it ruin lives—an academic accidentally on the no-fly list had career destroyed.
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I think ML making decisions is more on the money to be scared off, some of the issues are intractable at the moment. I think it’s hard to have just the right nightmare ahead of time but possible to be in the right neighborhood.
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These are fundamentally institutional problems, not technology problems. If the IRS misspells your name and you can’t get anyone to correct it, is that Oracle’s fault? Or SQL’s? Or is it the fault of a bureaucracy that hasn’t built the right processes?
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New York Times still hasn’t come to terms with its 2016 election coverage! Part of my point, it’s very easy for powerful institutions to tell themselves stories that justify their actions. 
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