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Neural nets are pattern recognition and repetition machines - nothing more or less.
If black people have historically been given harsher punishments by the criminal justice system (duh), any neural net is going to pattern match and print out a heavier sentence for a black person based on its training data.
the province was aware its use of the software could disproportionately target Black prisoners, but went ahead with it anyway
Yep, sounds about right
The Premiere named his daughters with the initials KKK. How many black Conservative MPPs are there?
It's a *feature*
...Because they could just blame it on the software.
So far every use of algorithmic policing that has been reported has shown only to exacerbate the conditions caused by systemic bigotry.
Even in Canada, I have to assume the system is working as designed -- the racism is deliberate -- until proven otherwise.
I still fail to understand why people act like Canada is a paradise compared to the US.
Because "compared to the US" is a very low bar to clear these days.
compared to the US.
If they statement is honest then you are as dumb as we all think you are
I don't know man. Your country's genocide of it's native people went on way longer than it did in my country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples?wprov=sfla1
Canada closed its last Indian boarding school in 1996 and issued an apology for their cultural genocide.
Can you guess when the US did? If you guessed they are still separating Native Americans from their families you would be correct.
The US killed so many more natives it isn't funny. Canada generally respected the treaties they signed while the US wiped its ass with them.
I am not excusing what Canada did, but you shouldn't try to compare them to the US.
It's also a paradise compared to living in a cess pit.
Give it a few years. You'll have your own Trump, don't you worry.
You would imagine they would trial these programs to see if there are massive flaws with them but that is probably to expensive.
There's strong correlation in crime statistics for both severity and frequency of violent crime and being black
It is therefore not a surprise that feeding prisoner crime data, and not any race data, into a computer to determine prisoner risk has the same correlation between race and likelihood of violence
To reduce the rating based on their race would be discrimination by definition
You don't seem to have read the article because the government admits that there are issues with racial bias and it's already attempting to mitigate that for indigenous people specifically, but not black people.
Whatever correlation may or may not be present should not be used to justify worse conditions. Worse conditions lead to worse outcomes so it becomes a bit of a self fulfilling issue. We do not know how these decisions are being made and that the problem. Even if race is excluded it could be using a proxy for race. There should be guidelines that apply to everyone or a panel that can be questioned and held accountable. AI cannot be held accountable in this way so it should not be making these decisions.
and it’s already attempting to mitigate that for indigenous people specifically
That's literally racial discrimination and shouldn't be a thing.
Even if race is excluded it could be using a proxy for race
AI doesn't care about race. It cares about achieving the mission statement.
You almost get it. So very close.
