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It’s not so much dystopian as it is just buggy software

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When buggy software is used by unreasonably powerful entities to practise (and defend) discrimination that’s dystopian…

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Except it wasn’t actually launched, and they didn’t defend its discrimination but rather ended the project.

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Ah ok. I don’t know much about it, but I’ve heard that AI could sometimes be negative toward commonly discriminated against groups because the data that it’s trained with is. (Side note: is that true? someone pls correct me if it’s not). I jumped to the conclusion that this was the same thing. My bad

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what it did it expose just how much inherent bias there is in hiring. even just name and gender alone.

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That is both true and pivotal to this story

It’s a major hurdle in some uses of AI

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An AI is only as good as its training data. If the data is biased, then the AI will have the same bias. The fact that going to a women’s college was considered a negative (and not simply marked down as an education of unknown quality) is proof against the idea that many in the STEM field hold (myself included) that there is a lack of qualified female candidates but not an active bias against them.

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