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Down_The_Rabbithole t1_iuvbb2o wrote

Reply to comment by Superduperbals in Google’s ‘Democratic AI’ Is Better at Redistributing Wealth Than America by Mynameis__--__

AI will discriminate based on its training data. Since its training data will come from human history it will discriminate exactly how history has discriminated.

AI is going to favor old white men for job positions. AI law is going to favor young white women. AI policing is going to favor young black men.

At least in the US.

We don't have enough modern data that doesn't have a bias to train a proper AI that won't repeat this pattern.

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turnip_burrito t1_iuy6ry5 wrote

Not quite accurate to describe AI, what you described is just today's dominant "curve fitting" AI which doesn't generalize outside of the training distribution. This particular mathematical modeling style is as you've said, problematic.

However, it is possible to build a different type of AI which runs simulations step by step starting with sounder and minimally biased assumptions, in order to make predictions that exist outside of the existing data distribution.

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