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Melanie Mitchell: Concepts, Analogies, Common Sense & Future of AI

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What's the Agency of the Algorithm?

The idea is the algorithm. That's right, so the fundamental element of what does the bad thing is a human being. But the algorithm kind of controls the behavior, this mass of human beings. The question here is sort of who has the agency? So you might say, for instance, we don't want our algorithms to be racist. And facial recognition, some people have criticized some facial recognition systems as being racist because they're not as good on darker skin than lighter skin.

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