This goes in the category of, "if humans have no idea how to do something, let's close our eyes and assume the algorithm meant to do it is working perfectly". h/t @dbiello https://t.co/toT3vaWYfl
— Cathy O'Neil (@mathbabedotorg) November 2, 2018
This goes in the category of, "if humans have no idea how to do something, let's close our eyes and assume the algorithm meant to do it is working perfectly". h/t @dbiello https://t.co/toT3vaWYfl
— Cathy O'Neil (@mathbabedotorg) November 2, 2018
It’s increasingly difficult to maintain the assumption that China is the only place where big data is being used explicitly for social control. https://t.co/ASxqAvfpkn
— Cathy O'Neil (@mathbabedotorg) November 1, 2018
Chinese prefer killing pedestrians over passengers when autonomous cars fail - South China Morning Post https://t.co/YvONbubT2N
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) October 29, 2018
The study finds that the strongest, most potent predictor of sexual harassment is essentially the culture. It’s not about rooting out the bad apples; we need to focus on the whole barrel.https://t.co/dULCR1v2OJ pic.twitter.com/Nljd0dQ8Eb
— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) October 26, 2018
Step 0: make people's civil rights a "political discussion/debate"
— Liz Fong-Jones (@lizthegrey) October 24, 2018
Step 1: ban politics at work
Step 2: let majority employees invoke ban against employees organizing for rights
Help my marginalized employees are leaving because they feel unsupported, where did I go wrong?
The longer companies ignore the numerous problematic abuses of AI that are inevitable as a consequence of its 'dual use' nature, the worse the policy response is going to be. We're basically not acknowledging that we're propagating dangerous information into an unstable world.
— Jack Clark (@jackclarkSF) October 22, 2018
This is infinitely sad and also makes me extremely skeptical about the future of social media. https://t.co/Idpx2IUJyn
— Cathy O'Neil (@mathbabedotorg) October 15, 2018
“There’s a complete breakdown in the thought process behind how your technology is going to affect the users that use it and the world at large, and the incentive structure that is behind Silicon Valley start-ups, which is simply growth at all costs.” https://t.co/CjW2QEuUwH
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) October 12, 2018
"digital surveillance technology is now so cheap — and so unregulated — that almost anyone can sell it.... No federal law prohibits person-to-person location tracking and there are very few rules for private tracking apps and the data they process."https://t.co/bfsBMRqHhD pic.twitter.com/coVvTamRiu
— Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel) October 11, 2018
Amazon had a resume vetting tool that they found to discriminate against women. Mini-thread. ⬇️https://t.co/kxIhStyhgD
— Kristian Lum (@KLdivergence) October 10, 2018
To hear Google’s search chief spinning their censored Chinese search engine as a benefit to users is just chilling. This person also oversees Google’s American search engine. https://t.co/2UmbJfTOou pic.twitter.com/bRT6ecF6JX
— Matt Cagle (@Matt_Cagle) October 9, 2018
Alarming, The things that biostatisticians are asked to do. https://t.co/plx7tbiJTFhttps://t.co/88IrIAyWBo@AnnalsofIM @ACPinternists cc @f2harrell @EdwardTufte pic.twitter.com/8PxaJNDcTE
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 8, 2018