Shouldn't matter. What we really want is a classifier that does not take skin colour (or ethnicity) into consideration as a feature.
I know how ML works but I believe we should demand better from these technologies than the limits of our own biases.
Right now, this machine learning algorithm is apparently about as smart as a bigot arguing "yea but percentages show that crime is in fact higher among blacks!". It mainly shows how systemic the racism is, that a dumb ML algo picks up on it.
This is not solved by showing the bigot less statistics about black crime, but by showing them how to pull their head out of their ass.
We should expect no less from our ML technologies, otherwise you'll keep running behind the facts, always fixing errors after they have been learned and made.
Yeah that is hard and we have no idea how to approach it. But the alternative appears to be writing computer programs with the reasoning skills of a racist cop.
I know how ML works but I believe we should demand better from these technologies than the limits of our own biases.
Right now, this machine learning algorithm is apparently about as smart as a bigot arguing "yea but percentages show that crime is in fact higher among blacks!". It mainly shows how systemic the racism is, that a dumb ML algo picks up on it.
This is not solved by showing the bigot less statistics about black crime, but by showing them how to pull their head out of their ass.
We should expect no less from our ML technologies, otherwise you'll keep running behind the facts, always fixing errors after they have been learned and made.
Yeah that is hard and we have no idea how to approach it. But the alternative appears to be writing computer programs with the reasoning skills of a racist cop.