@blight @a1batross @realcaseyrollins
Not in the sense of "the AI has beliefs about white supremacy", but yes in the sense that AI systems can be used to deliberately or accidentally perpetuate racism (also sexism, ableism, etc.). The books "Weapons of Math Destruction" and "Technically Wrong" enumerate many examples.
One small example is the "racist soap dispenser", which astonishingly has been developed more than once:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJjv_OeiHmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHynGQ9Vg30
There's no reason to believe that a person (or AI) *decided* to behave this way. It's much more likely that the development team and the training data were both devoid of dark skin.
FBI trawled #Facebook to arrest protesters for inciting riots, court records show
White people were asked to leave the "CHAZ" for a day. https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1274670261497782272
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On further inspection, I think the tweet itself might be fake, but the intention to language police its users is certainly there, and if you don’t think the implementation is going to be fucking Orwellian, I don’t know what to tell ya.
I've moved over to @realcaseyrollins for my private account
This is literally just here to archive my old posts now