I wonder who the author thinks "we" are that we would have any say in the matter. People are a cost, offset against profits. That's all we are to the corporate machine that controls pretty much everything and "we" will be replaced whenever it is cost effective feasable to do so. Bye bye checkout girl, hello self checkout. Bye bye manager, hello AI.
They already are being replaced. Regular computer systems replace manual workers all the time. If you go to Walmart in the evening, 1 real checkout girl, 15 automated checkouts. It doesn't seem to occur to these corporates when they replace people with technology that 15 less jobs is 15 less wages to be spent in the economy on their products and services. Management is a little different, its tasks are not so repetitive so not so easily replaced by computer systems but they will be and that is the real future of AI in the workplace. We spend centuries building a society that requires everyone to have a job for it to function, then greed steps in and says let's replace those jobs with technology.
IBM hopes to fight bias in facial recognition with new diverse dataset Biased facial recognition could affect everything from police work to hiring June 27, 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17509400/facial-recognition-bias-ibm-data-training
This happened at my local store shortly after Walmart announced they were raising the minimum starting wage. Assumed the self-checkout bit was previously corp. planned and approved to offset those wage increases. You will never beat the corps. when it comes to profits. ~ Removed Political OT Remarks ~ Anyway, I read the AI article in my morning's newspaper. All like stuff reminds me of a sci-fi book I read a few decades ago. It was about the last human on earth. Society delegated everything to machines. This caused society to get so lazy, they stopped maintaining the machines. Of course, everything stopped working which caused everyone to cease to exist; except for this poor SOB.
IBM launches tool aimed at detecting AI bias September 19, 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45561955 Blog entry: Introducing AI Fairness 360 September 19, 2018 https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2018/09/ai-fairness-360/
Majority of Orgs Failing to Make Machine Learning Fair, Safe & Balanced September 27, 2018 https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/orgs-failing-tmachine-learning/
Unbiased algorithms can still be problematic It depends on how they're used September 30, 2018 https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/30/unbiased-algorithms-can-still-be-problematic/
Most Americans believe algorithms will always be biased November 16, 2018 https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/16/study-shows-americans-believe-algorithms-biased/
Microsoft Calls for Laws to Prevent Bias in Facial Recognition AI December 6, 2018 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...laws-to-prevent-bias-in-facial-recognition-ai
Facebook backs an independent AI ethics research center January 20, 2019 https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/20/facebook-tum-ai-ethics-research-center/
Microsoft Seeks to Restrict Abuse of its Facial Recognition AI January 23, 2019 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...o-restrict-abuse-of-its-facial-recognition-ai
IBM releases Diversity in Faces, a dataset of over 1 million annotations to help reduce facial recognition bias January 29, 2019 https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/29/...tions-to-help-reduce-facial-recognition-bias/ Research paper (PDF): https://www.research.ibm.com/artificial-intelligence/trusted-ai/diversity-in-faces/documents/Diversity-in-Faces-Publication.pdf
The Real Reason Tech Struggles With Algorithmic Bias February 12, 2019 https://www.wired.com/story/the-real-reason-tech-struggles-with-algorithmic-bias/
AI Researchers Are Pushing Bias Out of Algorithms March 6, 2019 https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...ing-bias-out-of-algorithms?srnd=technology-vp
The risks of amoral A.I. The consequences of deploying automation without considering ethics could be disastrous August 25, 2019 https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/25/the-risks-of-amoral-a-i/
Little grouse on the prairie: IBM's AI facial-recognition training dataset gets it in trouble... in Illinois Photo subjects fling class-action sueball January 27, 2020 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/27/ibms_facial_recognition_software_gets_it_in_trouble_again/