The split that White identifies isn't a split about whether AI tools can be useful. Plenty of us AI skeptics are happy to stipulate that there are good uses for AI. For example, I'm 100% in favor of the #HumanRightsDataAnalysisGroup using an LLM to classify and extract information from the Innocence Project New Orleans' wrongful conviction case files:
https://hrdag.org/tech-notes/large-language-models-IPNO.html
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Take #HRDAG's work on #TruthAndReconciliation in #Colombia. The #HumanRightsDataAnalysisGroup is a tiny nonprofit that makes an outsized contribution to #HumanRights, by using statistical methods to reveal the full scope of the human rights crimes that take place in the shadows, from #EastTimor to #Serbia, #SouthAfrica to the USA:
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It'll tell you do throw even *more* Black kids up against a wall and search their pockets. The more you do this, the more knives you'll find, and the more you'll go back and do it again.
This is what #PatrickBall from the #HumanRightsDataAnalysisGroup calls "#EmpiricismWashing": take a biased procedure and feed it to an algorithm, and then you get to go and do more biased procedures.
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Cory Doctorow