Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
A machine trained on human decisions isn’t gonna make better decisions, and I’m not aware that a sufficiently advanced machine reasoning from principles instead of correlations exists yet. So as it stands, the best we can do is try to minimise the problematic aspects of humanity.
Yeah, the human part is quite often the problem in such systems though.
Unfortunately, yes.
A machine trained on human decisions isn’t gonna make better decisions, and I’m not aware that a sufficiently advanced machine reasoning from principles instead of correlations exists yet. So as it stands, the best we can do is try to minimise the problematic aspects of humanity.
It’s not a good solution, just the less bad one.