Algorithms are not magic. They are neither good nor evil, but they also aren't neutral. They are just math recipes written by regular ol' dumb human beings, and so they don't absolve us of our responsibilities as human beings. If anything, they amplify them. If you make a bad batch of enchiladas, that's really just a problem for you. If you program a computer to make unlimited batches of bad enchiladas, well now you are assaulting the entire world—the whole enchilada, as it were.
@theropologist The thing about all this AI stuff is that all the “AI” is “algorithms” from a few years ago, they are just souped-up algorithms, and people/institutions are doing the same bad things with them, like feeding them biased data.
@MisuseCase And most AI algorithms aren't even really algorithmic in the traditional sense. They come at the problem sideways. Instead of following a recipe step by step to make enchiladas, they rifle through a huge pile of garbage, trying to cobble together something that they think is close enough to what they think you think an enchilada is. There are so many more opportunities for introducing bias without even realizing you're doing it.