On: Moral Machine

[justinlivi]

I took the same sort of dispassionate approach, valuing the lives of the passengers above all else and staying the course otherwise. I was disappointed to discover the parsing of the results had no room for such methodology. Based my entirely algorithmic approach it was determined that I favored youth and fitness.

[taneq → justinlivi]

And that's how simple algorithms, acting on non-homogenous datasets, get declared to be 'racist' (or otherwise discriminatory).