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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Those two have always been intertwined! Besides, even the simplest database errors are experienced differently by the less powerful. I hear a lot of insane stories. Also these technologies can be empowering to the empowered and controlling to those who are not—especially at work.
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True but also like judging problems within modern medicine by comparing it with 18th century doctors. The standard isn't a nostalgic, idealized past but modern expectations of fairness & transparency. Also human unfairness is familiar—we have culture to wrap our heads around it.
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It took a lot of counter-institution building to tame upheavals/inequalities of the other industrial revolution. Factories didn't magically create people living in nice houses, taking the weekend off even though *obviously* machine-labor liberates humans—ML can well be same path.
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