The best minds in AI ethics are not even one step removed from this mess.
The goals here were clear: preserve standardisation in unprecedented times. But public trust? Fairness? Equity? People in charge ranked those goals lower than that of standardising marks across schools. But absence of 'ground truth' here -- 2020 individual exam results --> FAIL.
We need instead to understand how these systems are rolled out in practice -- not just open the so-called black box but what's around that box: who built it, who is using it, what are they doing with it, who do they think it is for, what do people know/THINK they know about it.
How are we all going to be alert for the next time this happens? And trust me, this won't be the last that people will be shouting in the streets '*&^% the algorithm'.
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A key Mu3k theory made it into the @nytimes opinion pages this week. Touted and burnished by a professor at a top university WITHOUT transparency that Musk funded him for $10 Million for the research. How? 🧵
Humanity is collapsing from population decline. Sound familiar? It's the pet theory of ultra-rich Western white guys like Musk. He funded the center run by the author of this @nytimes op-ed with a $10 million grant. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
What I find EXTRAORDINARY that this funding is not listed on website for the center, the Population Wellbeing Institute, nor did the author say in his op-ed bio that he leads PWI. But Bloomberg broke this story last month about Musk's donation to PWI. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"If you do not have symptoms, you must not seek a test, as the scientific evidence shows that the test may not be able to detect whether you have the virus."
How in hell are we going into a second wave with this as the NHS messaging?
I say this having returned from a US state (KY) with free, rapid, on demand testing. Waste a test? Nobody wants to do nasal swab tests for fun. I flew back to the UK knowing I wasn't putting my family at risk (neg.)
And now I sit in 14 days legally mandated quarantine because I actually follow the rules.
Data are for 2017 and cover the whole year. Of course we've only had 6 months of Covid data in 2020 (Feb-Aug), but already it it is the third top cause of death in the US. cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr…