“It will always be possible to get ChatGPT to produce hate speech at volume. Other ML systems will have algorithmic bias, too, as long as there’s biased input. The problem is that these systems are being used as if they are unbiased, and that just reinforces existing power structures and exacerbates inequality. The same kind of flawed facial recognition technology Gebru warned about is used regularly by police departments, leading to mistaken arrests of Black people and even worse racial disparities in arrest rates. 118 Police also use predictive policing algorithms to determine what areas to patrol, disproportionately impacting Black, Latino, and low-income communities. 119 Nor is law enforcement the only problem. Algorithms are used to mete out credit scores and weigh the risk of a loan; like criminal risk assessment, these algorithms discriminate against Black people and other minorities. 120 Getting a good credit score can determine your ability to buy a car or house, get hired for a new job—or afford chemotherapy. Algorithmic bias is literally a matter of life and death, especially if you’re not a white man. Yet despite the severity of these problems,”
— More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity by Adam Becker
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