Comment by throwaway173738

The scary thing about ML isn’t that it’s poised to eat a lot of lower-reasoning tasks, it’s that we’re going to find ourselves in a landscape of “that’s just what the AI said to do” kind of excuses for all kinds of bad behavior, and we’re completely unwilling to explore what biases are encoded in the models we’re producing. It’s like how Facebook abdicates responsibility for how users feel because it’s just the product of an algorithm. And if I were a betting person I’d bet all this stuff is going to be used for making rental determinations and for deciding who gets exceptions to overdraft fees well before it’s used for anything else. It’s an enabling technology for all kinds of inhumanity.