Duke prof's new computer science course will focus on diversity
(campusreform.org)
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Turns out that completely unbiased machines that process inputs into outputs through logic tend to arrive at conclusions that are wildly incompatible with social justice dogmas, and indoctrination must be applied to "fix" this. Reality has a well-documented conservative bias. It's not the first time this has come up, but it's nice to remind people once in a while.
Same with machine learning and statistics.
There's been a couple of notable cases where "using AI to solve X" turns out to be "X immediately arrives at the correct (but highly politically incorrect) conclusions that people already know... now panic and backtrack because political correctness".
I do wonder how much of the current flailing of some companies is due to some combination of avoiding statisticians in general (due to the potential of arriving at correct (but highly politically incorrect) conclusions), and avoiding good statisticians in particular (due to their annoying habit of sticking by correct conclusions even when they are politically inconvenient).