Risky Business
Hi-Phi Nation
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Is Machine Learning Discriminatory?
There's this paradox worth considering that comes from the philosophy of moral responsibility. It says that as our ability to predict a person's behavior goes up, their culpability seems to go down. Nothing in the current algorithms take into account whether a person is at fault for the things that make them high risk. And why should it? No one asks the algorithm to do that. If Megan Stevenson is right and the highest predictive factors of future crime are the things that people have least control over, then precisely the opposite should be happening.
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