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Mason-B t1_j05rx4i wrote

Reply to comment by 6thReplacementMonkey in Why do so many people assume malevolent AI won’t be an issue until future AI controlled robots and drones come into play? What if malevolent AI has already been in play, covertly, via social media or other distributed/connected platforms? -if this post gets deleted by a bot, we might have the answer by Shaboda

> It's not malevolent AI doing those things, it's malevolent people using AI to do those things.

It's not even necessarily malevolent people. People in the system acting uncritically can use AI/algorithmic black boxes as a way to smuggle bias for the perpetuation of that system. Simple things like using Machine Learning to spot crimes based off of historical data... that is inherently racist because the system is. And so people think "well the computer can't be biased, it's just math!" but if the data it was trained on was biased, it can be even more malevolent than the system it is replacing without any people directly meaning to do that.

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