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Rachel Lomasky - Can A.I. Be Ethical?

The Curious Task

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The Ethics of the Decision Tree

The job of the human touch is to understand what's happening in that black box and how it's affecting the ethics, ethical, but not always a negative. It's not just about analyzing code and saying, hey, is that ethical? Yeah. So I think, like, one of the examples is, there's actually really old examples, probably 25 years old. But it was a case of whether people coming into the emergency room with pneumonia should be admitted or they should be sent home. Right. And even though the first algorithm had higher accuracy when measured by, you know, decision recall, whatever, um, the second algorithm was actually the one that was better for humans.

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