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How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying?

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 17 2017, @03:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the swear-on-a-stack-of-K&Rs dept.

canopic jug writes:

At The Guardian, Cathy O'Neil writes about why algorithms can be wrong. She classifies the reasons into four categories on a spectrum ranging from unintential errors to outright malfeasance. As algorithms now make a large portion of the decisions affecting our lives, scrutiny is ever more important and she provides multiple examples in each category of their impact.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @04:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @04:44PM (#540382)

    I just want to chime in here, you are presuming the existence of a true AI and then you presume the AI would have some motivation to lie about software testing. These observations point to only one obvious conclusion: you are an idiot.

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