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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Machine learning is going to mean a very different thing at lower ranks of the employment hierarchy.
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Or, ML algorithms will, without anyone understanding what's going on, weed out people prone to depression or women more likely to become pregnant in the next two years. It's ML, not just bureacratic rules codified into some code.
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Why is an institution implementing an ML system without understanding how it could be wrong any different to an institution implementing a database without having that understanding?
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Cannot even reverse/engineer debug. I think a better grouping is that ML is opaque like humans, but as humans we have some insight into human foibles. Traditional databases (or programs) are like bureaucratic rules: they can be a maze, but you can potentially figure them out. 1/2
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Formal/explicit rules can be better than human judgment for the discriminated (goes to Steve's point). Hotel booking/Uber easier for non-white people than AirBnB/Taxis. But, ML is a different twist, opaque like humans but not, at the moment, deployed to help less powerful. 2/2
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