Who is responsible for designing equitable "Artificial" "Intelligence"?

Governments?

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"The software can scan footage including from closed-circuit television to automatically match faces and license plates to a police database and pick out suspects in a crowd."

Big Tech?

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"Amazon’s program penalized applicants who attended all-women’s colleges, as well as any resumes that contained the word “women’s” (as might appear in the phrase “women’s chess club”)."

Institutions?

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"The company claims its research has found the software to be twice as accurate as human analysts when it comes to predicting where crimes will happen. "

Who is responsible for designing equitable "Artificial" "Intelligence"?

Governments?

Screenshot of article on Bloomberg with the title

"The software can scan footage including from closed-circuit television to automatically match faces and license plates to a police database and pick out suspects in a crowd."

Big Tech?

Screenshot of article on TheVerge with the title

"Amazon’s program penalized applicants who attended all-women’s colleges, as well as any resumes that contained the word “women’s” (as might appear in the phrase “women’s chess club”)."

Institutions?

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"The company claims its research has found the software to be twice as accurate as human analysts when it comes to predicting where crimes will happen. "

Do Humans

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"Do robot things?"

Are they robots?

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  "Gets me from point A to B and I don't even have to talk"  

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Or are they humans?

Or are they robots?

Amazon

  "Things just magically show up"  

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Or are they humans?

Or are they robots?

Interview-optimized

  "They should interview everyone the same way"  

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Or are they humans?

"Artificial" "Intelligence" is being applied in almost all industries

My work as the designated dissenter and resident skeptic is to interrogate how and where AI is applied. 

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