This is scary.
, which “investigates the power and consequences of decisions driven by algorithms on people’s everyday lives,” just illustrated another powerful and inherently problematic aspect of machine learning algorithms, and it’s unfairly targeting kids and families of certain races.
“Typically, you only know the end result: how it has affected you, if you’re even aware that AI or an algorithm was used in the first place,” Heilweil notes. The algorithm focuses on “everything from inadequate housing to poor hygiene,” a nebulous term that could, in theory, include data sets on everything from how often a child brushes their teeth to whether or not the child has a set bedtime., like Medicaid records, substance abuse histories, and jail and probation records. These data are already primed for racial bias, given that they come from institutions steeped in white supremacy, like the carceral system.
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