<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 9:25 AM Miles Fidelman <<a href="mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net">mfidelman@meetinghouse.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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(The point being: We don't have to wait for "real" AI to see many
of the dangers that folks fictionalize about - we are already
seeing those dangers from mundane software - and it's only going
to get worse while people are looking elsewhere.)<br>
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Miles Fidelman<br>
<br><br></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Well put. No matter what you call it, algorithms are already dangerous and can be unpredictable. People have a tendency to not want to make hard choices and will often defer to computations or calculations.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Recommended reading on the topic: <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-Inequality/dp/0553418815">https://smile.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-Inequality/dp/0553418815</a></div></div></div></div>