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One of the worst things about corporate (and increasingly government) love of AI is the way it lets them dodge accountability. When people explicitly design and operate a discriminatory process, they can be held accountable for it, but now they can just say "Oops, somebody messed up with the training data". One topical example:
Another example is where Youtube's very error prone "copyright protection" AI algorithm is defunding Youtube's own content creators and often diverting their income to corporations that have no interest in seeing the mistakes corrected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lLVie8usfg
But if there's one context where you really don't want accountability to vanish, it's when decisions are made about whether or not to open fire. There should be an international convention to proscribe and police this, really. As it is, Horizon Zero Dawn comes ever closer to being a prophecy, not just a video game.