Or Amazons AI for sorting out applications that actually apropriatly sorted out certain demographics (even when it didn't know what they were, afaik they didn't include things like sex or race)
I mean, pattern recognition engines are bound to recognize patterns. But these patterns make some people feel uncomfortable so we have to pretend they don't exist.
Same thing happened in the US military too. They went to blind promotions to offset too many white, male officers, then the percentage of white, male officers went up, and now photos are required to be included front and center on all promotion applications.
Australia did the most fair and scientific experiment with making government job applications gender and race blind…
They found that white men were being discriminated against and under the fair scheme men got hired according to their merit for the first time…
Oppression Olympics Marxists in government freaked out and cancelled the program.
Yah, that was what I referred to.
Or Amazons AI for sorting out applications that actually apropriatly sorted out certain demographics (even when it didn't know what they were, afaik they didn't include things like sex or race)
I mean, pattern recognition engines are bound to recognize patterns. But these patterns make some people feel uncomfortable so we have to pretend they don't exist.
I recall some 10 years ago classical orchestra auditions were done blind which resulted in more men, less women being accepted.
Same thing happened in the US military too. They went to blind promotions to offset too many white, male officers, then the percentage of white, male officers went up, and now photos are required to be included front and center on all promotion applications.
Amazon's AI filtered out woman-only colleges for producing generally poor employees, IIRC.