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Maybe not as prominently, but it's been with us for a long time: from the application of #probability to testimony & judgment from late 1700s, to #RacialDiscrimination by the actuaries of the late 1800s, to the eugenic evil of #IBMandTheHolocaust. That we're now more conscious...
...of 'the #algorithm' doesn't mean we've become any better at preventing its abuse.
#AppliedStatistics is still inherently #amoral and more often than not #unethical-by-default now it's at #AI speed, and wielded by those who value #prediction over human rights & human lives...
#AppliedStatistics is still inherently #amoral and more often than not #unethical-by-default now it's at #AI speed, and wielded by those who value #prediction over human rights & human lives...
...and the question remains, now public awareness is rising: what will we DO about it this time?
Reactive outrage, protest and #wackamole litigation (as necessary as those may be) will not deliver the strategic, systemic solutions we need for a just and fair #InformationSociety.
Reactive outrage, protest and #wackamole litigation (as necessary as those may be) will not deliver the strategic, systemic solutions we need for a just and fair #InformationSociety.
So I'm reading "IBM and the Holocaust" for the book club at work (I <3 that my *office* picked this book!).
It is so far from "old news" that it's scary.
It is so far from "old news" that it's scary.
Capitalists who care only about profits, who are not at all deterred by the knowledge of the profound suffering, death, and outright murder that they are directly enabling…
#IBMandTheHolocaust #alsoToday
#IBMandTheHolocaust #alsoToday
Technology that makes it easier, more efficient, and more omniscient for people to be surveilled and tracked. No way for the people to meaningfully opt out. No way to undo it, once it had been unleashed…
#IBMandTheHolocaust #alsoToday
#IBMandTheHolocaust #alsoToday
