If you want ethical AI, regulate data collection. The algorithms are just gussied-up linear algebra and cannot function without immense data collections derived from nonconsensual commercial surveillance.
There's no way to de-bias this data, since there are other kinds of bias in the data that we don't even think about, along with proxies for the biases we do try to remove. But all you have to do is not collect and retain it, and the entire problem goes away.
Who knew in 2021 the Matrix would turn out to be just a stupid matrix.
This is what I mean when I say working on AI ethics at places like Google is like doing climatology at Exxon-Mobil, or heading the coyote safety division at ACME. It removes an entire class of effective regulatory interventions from discussion.
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