Daphne Preston-Kendaltja
via @mossfet
I wish it broke down why, for example, it thinks I’m massively in favour of disruption. I answered agree to the question that was like ‘sometimes existing industries and institutions need to be broken down to change society for the better’ or whatever because, yes, I do think that e.g. the fossil fuel industry needs to be destroyed, but was that one question alone enough to get a 100% score on being pro-disruption? 🤨
From examining the source code, the two privilege questions are:
• Tech is one of the fairest industries (etc.) – pretty sure I disagreed
• AI bias is a reflection of societal inequality, not just a technical problem to fix – pretty sure I agreed
So I’m guessing agreeing to the second question meant I got 50% on privilege blindness? Huh?
If you fill a stupid chatbot with stupid racist texts you scraped from random racist websites on the internet, it will say racist things
It’s possible I clicked the wrong button by mistake. ADHD things
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A. R. Younce@dpk Likewise. I immediately thought about the oil industry and said “Agree”.
Displacing a huge number of scientists, teachers, authors, artists, transportation workers, etc. with “AI” is *not* the same thing as ending the industrial scale destruction of the environment, yet it’s “disruptive”.
Sebastian Crane 🏳️⚧️@dpk @mossfet 22% for me. I think there's an interesting nuance in the 'privilege blindness' section. I benefit from social privilege because I'm dealing in the subfield of computing where aspects of my background are visible: people can see me and my ethnicity, hear my accent, read my writing style etc. But there are ways in which underprivileged people can use the anonymity of the Internet to make a neutral first impression - not necessarily better than being in the privileged classes in the first place, but better than what they'd experience with their background fully visible. So in that way, tech is both democratizing in that it gives everyone a meritocratic start, and discriminating, in that ongoing secrecy is the price to pay for this treatment.