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from the sniff-sniff-I-have-a-very-bad-code dept.
Speaking at the Noisebridge hackerspace Tuesday evening, Chelsea Manning implored a crowd of makers, nerds, and developers to be ethical coders.
"As a coder, I know that you can build a system and it works, but you're thinking about the immediate result, you're not thinking about that this particular code could be misused, or it could be used in a different manner," she said, as part of a conversation with Noisebridge co-founder Mitch Altman.
Altman began the conversation by asking about artificial intelligence and underscoring some of the risks in that field.
"We're now using huge datasets with all kinds of personal data, that we don't even know what information we're putting out there and what it's getting collected for," Manning said. "Our AI systems are getting better and better and better, and we don't know what the social consequences of that are. The code that we write, the bias that you see in some of the systems that you see, we don't know if we're causing feedback loops with those kinds of bias."
[...] "The tools that you make for marketing can also be used to kill people," Manning continued. "We have an obligation to think of the tools that we're making and how we're using them and not just churn out code for whatever reason. You want to think about how your end-user could misuse your code."
Guns don't kill people, code kills people.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday September 14 2017, @09:49PM (3 children)
How is it that this particular group of folks, who revolted against Slashdot over a GUI change, is perfectly fine with Admins directly manipulating moderation and the mod-pool?
If Slashdot pulled this crap people would be freaking the hell out!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 14 2017, @10:52PM
How can you tell that the Slashdot admins don't do this kind of thing?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15 2017, @12:22AM
Quite a few people have complained about it, but at least TMB is a hypocritical bitch who hates censorship but will lash out when he's picked on. Big fucking baby is what he is, makes runaway look like a mature and responsible adult.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 15 2017, @05:07AM
I've been wondering the exact same thing. These tech sites seem to attract a lot of hardcore authoritarian followers for some reason, and this baffles me, *especially* seeing how many of them there are in/around FOSS. Someone else here, I think it was Grishnakh, specifically said (assuming this is a he, please correct me if wrong) he notices a lot of RWA thinking and attitudes among engineers.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...