[yesthatjallen]

Programming computers with biological facts and crime statistics makes computers sexist and racist. We're going to have to create new facts and statistics.

[ConservativeMind]

These aren’t flawed. They are correct, based on logic.

[alternatives?]

Socialist dreams never match reality,

[Jeff Chandler]

This is going to some thread.

[Tell It Right]

If by "robots" we were talking about human-looking ones, then yes, I predict them to be terribly racist.

Since right now they're made in Japan.

[Wuli]

“Programming computers with biological facts and crime statistics makes computers sexist and racist. We’re going to have to create new facts and statistics.”

Sacarcist truth about crime statitsics.

But statistics alone will not identify the individual(s) who stand apart from what some statistic says they demographically represent.

That - statistics - is how decisions based on looking for a preferred statistical result make racist non-merit decisions in things like college adminisions.

[seowulf]

So easy to figure out, even a robot can do it.

[I want the USA back]

All the developers have to do is build in bias against normal, non POC, White Christian males, as already exists in academia, major corporations, the law, and the media, and the robots will be deemed just wonderful.

[Signalman]

The individual(s) who coded the program that runs the robots have their own internal biases and those biases were knowingly, or unknowlingly, loaded into the robots’ memory banks.

[Demiurge2]

“inaccurate and overtly biased content...”
Oh, well, in THAT case...

[353FMG]

Wait till these robots acquire a taste for human flesh.

[353FMG]

Wait till these robots acquire a taste for human flesh.

[Billthedrill]

It would be helpful if the critics would list exactly which statements they consider racist and on what basis, as well as a little transparency on the part of the operators as to which databases were incorporated. The fact that there's garbage on the Internet does not mean that it was used.

If, for example, the database in question is the FBI Crime Statistics database and the conclusion was that blacks commit more violent crimes than other races, however emotive the term "racist" is, that conclusion was based on data, not emotions. Call it whatever you like, it isn't bias. Neither is concluding that men commit more violent crimes then women sexist, or that young people commit more violent crimes than octogenarians ageist. Whether the conclusion is diplomatic or not is irrelevant.

[Twotone]

What idiot decided that robots should learn from humans & mimic human behavior? If you don’t want a robot to be like humans, you’d better train them differently.

[Bernard]

Can you teach these robots that Lia Thomas is a grl?

[unlearner]

“identifying women as ‘homemakers’, black men as ‘criminals’ and Latino men as ‘janitors’.”

With a little tweaking of the algorithm it’ll be identifying women as ‘policymakers’, black men as ‘criminals’ and Latino men as ‘leaf blowers’.

Truth is science is still very much in the dark about human consciousness and perception. And even if science gains a much greater understanding of these things, ethics and morality are outside its domain.

So the question will soon become who is in charge of controlling AI. And what happens when AI becomes “self-determining”?

Weaponized, AI-enabled robots are inevitable and also the greatest singular existential threat to humanity (from a naturalistic or scientific perspective).