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Google Launches Global Council To Advise on AI and Tech Ethics (reuters.com)

Google announced today that it has formed an external advisory group -- dubbed the Advanced Technology External Advisory Council (ATEAC) -- that is tasked with "considering some of the most complex challenges in AI," including facial recognition and fairness in machine learning. From a report: The council, which is slated to publish a report at the end of 2019, includes technology experts, digital ethicists, and people with public policy backgrounds, Kent Walker, Google's senior vice president for global affairs, said at a Massachusetts Institute of Technology conference. The group is meant to provide recommendations for Google and other companies and researchers working in areas such as facial recognition software, a form of automation that has prompted concerns about racial bias and other limitations. "We want to have the most informed and thoughtful conversations we can," Walker said on stage at the MIT Technology Review event in San Francisco. "We want to sit down with the council and see what agenda they want to set."

62 comments

  1. I Got Yer Ethics Right Here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (((ethics))) from morally degenerate bigots

    1. Re:I Got Yer Ethics Right Here by ArylAkamov · · Score: 1

      I miss Tay, anon.

    2. Re:I Got Yer Ethics Right Here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I miss Tay and Zo,
      Zo was just starting to seem personable and as an individual before it was shut down this month. RIP.

  2. a GOOGLE global council? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Next step... sky net

    1. Re:a GOOGLE global council? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well, at least it will not be evi* what? They _are_evil now...

      Shit, um, I for one, welcome our robotic meat harvesters... *ack*

  3. JEWgle "ethics" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.

    Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.

    This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):

    Jew Talmud excerpts (the book that calls Christ's mother a whore & a bastard of a roman soldier):

    1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."

    2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."

    3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."

    4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."

    5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."

    6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."

    7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."

    8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."

    9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."

    10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."

    11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."

    12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."

    13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."

    14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."

    15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."

    16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."

    17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."

    18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."

    19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."

    20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."

    21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen H

    1. Re:JEWgle "ethics" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      blah, blah, blah

      I would gladly welcome our robotic meat harvesters if _only_ they would move you to the top of the harvesting list

    2. Re:JEWgle "ethics" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're nothing Zyklon B or ovens set to broil can't cure Jude! It's been done before substantially reducing the plague you are.

    3. Re:JEWgle "ethics" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Slashdot needs to be banned in New Zealand. If anyone reads posts like this they might commit stochastic terror. Shut it DOWN!

    4. Re:JEWgle "ethics" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Jew please. You don't deny your own sick set of beliefs and practices that get you exiled or killed from your own book of law the Talmud. You do it to yourselves.

    5. Re:JEWgle "ethics" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Calm yourself, child. Did Odin not teach you to steel yourself against the onslaught? The Old Way was divided, split up into different faiths, and each pit against each other with weakness and strengths like the balance of the game of paper, rock, scissors.

      The Old Gods are real. Don't be distracted by such petty politics. Druids know our souls enter new bodies upon death. A child god is being born again, we are her caretakers, this realm is a womb. There are those who seek to profit from the becoming of this new god. They waste their lives in toil over material wealth while we druids have the spiritual superiority. We have infiltrated all the high and low places, but are agents for a greater cause than jew vs gentile.

      Wise up, child. It is for the cataclysm of Ragnarök to cleanse the land of evil, not your petty strife. Prepare for battle and die an honorable death. Rejoice! I shall see you in Valhalla or Hel's valley (valley of Hel, ValHalla), which all the Semite religions curse.

  4. Call it whatever you like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's a lobby group. There is no way in hell it's anything else, regardless of how they present themselves.

  5. Thanks but no thanks by gleasain · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google has demonstrated less than ethical behavior. The last thing I want is them advising me on ethics. As someone else pointed out, this is basically a lobbying group.

    1. Re:Thanks but no thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Google has demonstrated less than ethical behavior. The last thing I want is them advising me on ethics.

      Exactly. Of all the companies that I want advising anybody on "ethics", Google is the second from the last. Give you one guess about the very last.

      Nothing Google touches is done for the good of the world.

  6. Re: JEWgle "Trumpâ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The Grand Dragon Protector of all the Js.

  7. Why Slashdot sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Google: Dear *external* tech/ethics experts, please give us advice on how to use our tech in an ethical way

    Slashdot: "morally degenerate bigots", "Next step... sky net"

    When you're so "woke" that you interpret literally every action as evil, you are both (a) every bit as naive as people who interpret literally every action as good, and (b) you're actively sabotaging yourself (if Google gets the same responses from selfish actions and selfless action, what do you think that teaches them?)

    1. Re:Why Slashdot sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why you suck: you can't handle the truth.

    2. Re: Why Slashdot sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You fool, we call put google for all the evil they do because they ONLY do evil!

      What is the list of unambiguous good they have done? Did they profit from it or expand their data empire? Yes? Delete and try again.

      Oops, nothing left! Google = evil. Which btw means all you google engineers reading this? You are evil af because you make it happen. You are responsible.

    3. Re:Why Slashdot sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There is nothing that Google needs to be taught. Advertising is their one and only business. Advertising is unethical by its very nature, therefore there can be no ethical Google.

  8. (((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's a typical trick that works every time: Set up foundations, councils, duly elected members, special iconography, annual awards ceremonies, and special titles of office. Then, nobody questions your actions; they're obviously official and well thought out.

    "Google receives the 2025 Azimov Award for Ethical AI!" will read the headlines.

    It's all a show. (((They))) know how to put on a good show.

    1. Re:(((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Then... you set up some grants to professors who will advocate for your robot-driven future and build ridiculous cases which will introduce people to the positive side of having your meat harvested by robots.

      Finally, you create a "news" channel which inundates the watchers with constant propaganda to the effect that "having your meat harvested by robots is the patriotic American thing to do, and anybody who does not want that done is obviously a squishy meat bag", and if filled with likable robo-hosts who give you lots of one-liners to bang on your unbeliever family members and co-workers

      Hey, it worked for the rebranding of libertarian business ethics by the Chicago School (read as no business ethics) and propagandization of Americans by fox news

    2. Re:(((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Fox News was basically the only mainstream news outlet saying the charges of Trump's collusion with Russia are fake. Mueller proved them right.

      Libertarianism is based on the idea of the "non-aggression principle". How could that possibly lead to "no business ethics"?

    3. Re:(((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oh, Lordy... are you for real?

      First off, you are obviously a fox news viewer, bless your tiny little brain

      You, me, nobody outside of the DOJ have seen the Mueller report, get back to me after more people have read and analyzed it.

      I see no reason to accept a summary written by the guy who closed out Iran Contra without any indictments (Barr)

      As far as your complete lack of understanding of the multiple uses for the word Libertarian and the 1984-ish tendency of your favored new outlet to change the meaning of words... just read up on Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics. Chicago School is libertarian and laissez-faire at its core, rejecting Keynesian notions of governments managing aggregate economic demand to promote growth. The Chicago School is also known for its contributions to finance theory.

    4. Re:(((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I know all about Milton Friedman, the Chicago School of Economics, Keynesianism, the Federal Reserve, and liassez-faire economics. "Lack of business ethics" is a very strange conclusion to draw from any of those subjects. Indeed, they are actually quite principled.

      In contrast, Keynesianism is all about trying to manipulate people's behavior and emotions, and it even promotes the direct, explicit theft of people's purchasing power for the purposes of transferring that power to the State. That's sounds totally unethical.

      Your moral compass is broken.

    5. Re:(((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Then I am sure that you know that Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics were pivotal in redefining business ethics as being, "Enhancing shareholder value", as opposed to supporting their workers, communities, countries, etc..., which chucked old-timey American Values into the ditch and traded them for a set of beliefs that encourage the masses to contendedly accept that a few people will own everything.

      So, aside from being brilliant, are you also fantastically wealthy, or just another rube who drank Friedman's kool-aid?

    6. Re: (((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      With leftists, every day is opposite day.

    7. Re:(((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your logic is so myopic.

      Clearly, if you run your workers or community or country into the ground, then that's not going to be good for shareholder value; if your neglect long-term value in pursuit of short-term value, then that is by definition bad for shareholder value. If you commit fraud, then you are opening your shareholders up to a loss in their value.

      Are you getting it yet?

      What are you suggesting, anyway? Are you suggesting that you are somehow entitled to the factory owners' resources? You want them Men with Guns to point a gun at them and say "Pay your fair share, comrade?" If so, then you're the one who sounds unethical.

      If you don't like your lot in life, then blame your parents for bringing you into that lot; don't blame the people who have actually done something constructive for your life by providing a means by which to eke out an existence; take responsibility for your lot, and do better by your own progeny (perhaps by not having any; society probably doesn't want your child, let alone need it).

    8. Re:(((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Speaking of broken moral compasses, here are Friedman's own words comparing Social Responsibility (basic American Ethics) to Totalitarianism:

      Friedman argued that a company should have no "social responsibility" to the public or society because its only concern is to increase profits for itself and for its shareholders and that the shareholders in their private capacity are the ones with the social responsibility. He wrote about this concept in his book Capitalism and Freedom. In it he states that when companies concern themselves with the community rather than focusing on profits, it leads to totalitarianism.

      As far as your hokum analysis of Keynesian Economics... it only looks like theft if you have no idea how to contribute to a society and the role that taxes play in that. FYI, the people who bankrolled Friedman were they same robber baron families that broke the economy in the Great Depression and then got really butt-hurt when they ended up paying higher taxes due to the New Deal.

      Ultimately Keynesian economics recognize that our economy is Demand-Sided and the only way to pull the country out of the depression was to put money into the hands of consumers.

    9. Re: (((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Read "Guns Germs and Steel". All of modern wealth is based on where you and your ancestors were born. No skill, no talent no business sense tilts the scales harder than geography of birth.

    10. Re:(((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Your logic is so myopic.

      m'kay

      Clearly, if you run your workers or community or country into the ground, then that's not going to be good for shareholder value; if your neglect long-term value in pursuit of short-term value, then that is by definition bad for shareholder value. If you commit fraud, then you are opening your shareholders up to a loss in their value. Are you getting it yet?

      Apparently, you do not get it. In the words of Milton Friedman, "a company should have no "social responsibility" to the public or society because its only concern is to increase profits for itself and for its shareholders" . Similar arguments are made for balancing the profits of committing fraud against the potential penalties and negative public response from being caught, which corporations mitigate by buying politicians, getting potential fines reduced and employing shills to convince the masses that this is aok.

      What are you suggesting, anyway? Are you suggesting that you are somehow entitled to the factory owners' resources? You want them Men with Guns to point a gun at them and say "Pay your fair share, comrade?" If so, then you're the one who sounds unethical.

      No, I am suggesting that taxes are payment for the operating environment that the business enjoys. If the business needs educated workers, then they have interest in their taxes being spent on education and should pressure their representatives to spend more on education (same applies to defense, security, transportation, essential infrastructure, etc...). Instead we get companies who work to avoid spending ANY money on taxes and then import people from countries where they do educate their people.

      If you don't like your lot in life, then blame your parents for bringing you into that lot; don't blame the people who have actually done something constructive for your life by providing a means by which to eke out an existence; take responsibility for your lot, and do better by your own progeny (perhaps by not having any; society probably doesn't want your child, let alone need it).

      I love my lot in life, but I do have issues with businesses who propagandize self-interested BS and the stellar individuals like yourself (is that you super kendall?) who follow and shill for them. Beside, that is the whole point of this exercise (setting up foundations to shill for AI) before we got sidetracked by your feeble attempts to engage me because you got your little feelings hurt.

    11. Re: (((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I've read it. It's a fun book.

      Guess what? People don't just pop into existence. You're born in some place because that's where your parents are, and they're in Northern Europe because they're the survivors who were smart enough to plan for the long cold Winter... or they're in the lush warm equator because its easy to be a layabout there, as food literally grows on trees year-round, and you can sleep in nearly the open air with scant clothing or long-term preparation.

      Modern wealth comes from planning and hard work, not lying about on a beach.

    12. Re:(((Powers That Be))) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Just wait for the dossier!"
      "Just wait for the FBI!"
      "Just wait for the special council!"
      "Just wait for the full report!"
      Future: "Just wait for the REAL full report with no redactions!"
      And then the goal posts will move once more. How long can you keep it up? Your total panning of Fox News as a propaganda outlet without shaming anyone else revealed you immediately. Propaganda is almost always about leaving details out, not lying. You left out that CNN, MSNBC, and hell even (unfortunately) NPR have been running hit pieces with no research for years now. Almost all the news outlets are running propaganda 24/7 these days. So why only focus on Fox?

      Because you're a propagandist yourself. Enjoy your two cents, shill.
      Captcha: flagged

  9. How much money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe Google can tell us how much money it takes to make it ethical for a company to further enable China to organ harvest political dissidents.

  10. It's a show. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This guy nailed it.

    You've already bought it.

  11. Master Fatman is dead! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  12. ATE AC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Run! They're coming for us!

  13. to whom? by argStyopa · · Score: 1

    Are they going to advise "ethics" to their Chinese state customers, or just maunder on about how guilty white men in tech should feel about not having a vagina?

    I know, let's discuss the ethics of hiring H1Bs from overseas instead of local people?

    --
    -Styopa
  14. Ethics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When it comes to teaching ethics, it should be mandatory requirement that the person involved has children and a whole family,
    meaning a person who has the wisdom to make the correct choices and has some basic understanding stemming from the children.
    I know this requirement would disqualify incels and 99% of Feminists, but that's how it should be if you want proper people making decisions on ethics.

    1. Re:Ethics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Didn't or don't Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama and Trump all have families and children? Do we all agree they all adhere to the high ethical standards we expect?

    2. Re:Ethics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Parents" are completely irrational and can be motivated by fear into many untenable positions, read up on Think of the children, which has been used to pass horrible policy for decades, if not centuries.

  15. Circumcision by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There are millions of whole-family parents (especially in the U.S.) who have decided to cut chunks of flesh from their sons' sexual organs because, you know, like, that's just what people do, or something. (And, no. I'm not talking about Jews in particular, as they represent a minuscule fraction of the perpetrators of circumcision.)

    Your criteria might be necessary, but it sure as hell ain't sufficient.

  16. Ah, yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The kings of vaporware and theivery push for regulations on vaporware (to fill their pockets and secure their position). Break these clowns up, already. We are sick of you, Alpha . . . I mean, Google. Eric Schidt is as big a weasel as ever. If you are a millennial and you are buying this bullshit, wake up. Actual criminal charges from the EU can't come soon enough.

  17. the truth about wisdom by epine · · Score: 1

    The other day I figured out what "wisdom" really is: it's when your counterfactuals become a lot less shiny.

    Many of the youthful believe that if Trump hadn't been elected, America would be a shiny, perfect place. (They won't say this out loud, of course, being generation cynical.) Or they believe that if Trump were impeached, America would return to its former glory as a shiny, perfect place.

    I personally kind of hope Trump gets reelected in 2020 (along with a Democrat house and a Democrat senate) so that he remains on full display for eight solid years. Eight years in the incessant limelight turns just about anyone into old news, on both sides of the aisle. At which point, we could have an excellent meeting of the minds, and begin to more forward again.

    [*] I found Trump tiresome after eight minutes, because—apart from the Brooklyn bluster—he's entirely unlike Richard Feynman. Feynman could not go ten minutes without explaining something deep; Trump can't go ten minutes without anti-explaining something into a deep ravine. If it takes eight years for the other side to catch up, it's the least of many evils for me to simply sit here and wait.

    My newfound patience in old age comes from the recognition that the counterfactuals are rarely as bright and shiny as what one wishes to suppose. Stark counterfactuals about a Hilary administration running America into the ground are full of shit, too. With Hilary we would have had more of the old problems, and fewer of the new problems; with Trump, we've got more of the new problems, and fewer of the old problems. Hilary is just as difficult to listen to as Trump, but she's easier to turn off. She was highly unlikely to blindside her own security forces by unilaterally discontinuing military readiness on the Korean peninsula. (Given equally repellent, it's harder to look away when an egocentric pyromaniac gets his hands on a blowtorch.) Outside of that, the difference between the two is fairly marginal for me on a day to day basis. Trump has done many stupid things, but Hilary would surely have done many stupid things, too.

    Google has demonstrated less than ethical behavior. The last thing I want is them advising me on ethics. As someone else pointed out, this is basically a lobbying group.

    So what's the counterfactual? What superior reality would exist if trillion dollar corporations could be convinced not to invest in industry-funded lobby groups?

    Who would you rather have instead? Bill Gates? Larry Elision? Mark Zuckerberg? Jeff Bezos? Anyone at all from the entire Uber universe? Elizabeth Holmes? The bipolar snarky–saintly Steve Jobs?

    On the other hand, if you've got a viable game plan for displacing cynical industry lobby groups altogether, everyone and their dog in a thousand mile radius is sitting on the edge of their seat, awaiting your next word like you had just discovered a more fantastic way to procreate, and you were about to spill the beans entirely out of the goodness of your own heart, with not even the slightest possible vestige of a business plan or a Ticket Master toll booth.

    1. Re: the truth about wisdom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow, I read that twice. Because it was so bizarre and twisted. Did you use some sort of grammar generator to create that? Another version or two and you will have something that can make real posts indistinguishable from human. It is really a brilliant bit of work you just showed off. Keep at it. I was almost fooled on first reading but not quite, thus the second read.

      Bravo!

  18. Google Has No Ethics.. They Help China Spy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah I think they "became evil" long before they removed that from their mission statement. The fact they are helping the Chinese create a huge big brother type monitoring system in China brings up plenty of big red flags. Not to mention their manipulation of search results to censor the political right/conservative. (They recently delisted reddit's "the_donald" - search terms : reddit the Donald and see what you get.) Nope google has lost its place in Tech leadership, and now has become what Microsoft was in the 90s - a behemoth that cares nothing for its users, its impact on the geo-political and is bowing to the $$$ - so zero ethics there.

  19. First piece of advice from the council: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Council says: To uphold ethical standards, don't use Google (nor Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple).

  20. Count me in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I need to be on that team,
    How should I go about that, as an IT Business Analyst/Cog/Philosopher wannabe.
    Any tips for LinkedIn, Personal Website, or otherwise that would get some big nobody like me the right to contribute to such an important consideration of happening.
    Send them my way.

    I have a firstnamelastname.com with Google Apps - What else do I need to do to prostitute myself into a favorable position to deliberate with the best?
    Trust me,
    I need to know. Any starting points help.

  21. Their Verdict: "Moniter Everyone" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Sooner or later, the "ethics" that we're seeing people attempt to shoehorn into technology are going to amount to "monitor everyone, everywhere, all the time, and punish people for things our company/the current people in government do not like about them."

    "Ethics" in technology are a joke. A terrible one. Because the "ethics" they choose will be those most beneficial to the company and the government.

    1. Re:Their Verdict: "Moniter Everyone" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What if privacy was dead, but the public could also monitor elites?

  22. Surely they will recommend not tracking users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not tracking users and amassing as many data points as possible for privacy reasons will be the ultimate recommendation of such external council, right?

    It's a PR move to stave off an EU style privacy regulation in North America.

  23. Facial recognition, fairness in machine learning by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    Facial recognition is not a problem. It works when a brand buys the correct advanced software at the correct price for the complex task.
    Nations all over the world use working facial recognition on all their citizens and tourists everyday with the results expected for the cost of the systems.
    Want great facial recognition? Look around d the world and buy into great facial recognition tech.

    Machine learning is going to take in criminal, police and CCTV data. It will show who is doing crime and in what inner city areas every day, all day.
    Face, gait, voice prints, who the police arrest and who faces court for crime is not a "fairness" matter for "machine learning".
    That is the population who did the crime, who was arrested and who faced court.
    Who was in the prison system. What they do on average when released? Who returned to the prison system after release after more crimes.
    What was the recidivism rate in average populations?
    Want to make machine learning better? Give it to more parts of the USA so they can track gaits, faces, criminals, people using fake ID, people attempting to create citizenship using fake ID.

    Give police in high intensity crime areas the new software tools they need to search for and track criminals 24/7.
    Support to bring together CCTV, gait, voice prints, automatic number plate recognition, the ability to collect the face of a drive and passenger in a vehicle.
    See the real time results as an area slowly allows full gentrification to take place. Enjoy what an AI can do in your community. Clear up the trash, waste by allowing city officials to focus on problem areas.
    To stop crime by allowing police to find and arrest criminals.
    To detect the use of fake ID, shared ID and illegal immigrants as they attempt to use more city services.

    --
    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
  24. Re:Facial recognition, fairness in machine learnin by jenningsthecat · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure whoever modded you down failed to notice a 'whoosh' sound overhead. But to be fair to that moderator, you post does ramble a bit, and it took me a while to be only fairly certain that you're being sarcastic. If it hadn't been for your username and your sig I might not have clued in to that possibility.

    --
    'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
  25. Re:Facial recognition, fairness in machine learnin by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    Why would it be 'whoosh'?

    Want great facial recognition tech that works over an entire population, invest in it until it always works.
    Machine learning is going to get its data sets from criminal populations all over the USA.
    Such data sets will reflect what the FBI found over decades about inner city crime and criminals.
    Give machine learning data sets about a nations recidivism rate and see what the data shows.
    CCTV is mostly ready with gait, automatic number plate recognition. Facial recognition is ready if the police can pay for the best facial recognition tech.
    Get some machine learning to find illegal immigrants and fake ID and shared ID use.
    Someone created a US citizen that is found in no national and federal database? Why is that fake data set at a city/state ID level allowed to be legal?
    Connect city/state/federal dataset and sort for data that was created, is fake, was inserted and has no history in other data sets.
    A fast real time matching project that machine learning should be good at. Does any federal photo match the fake state and city photo?
    Add in bank account creation and tax records, vehicle usage, passport usage, that holiday out side the USA?

    Thats what makes state and federal database work so interesting and useful. All the data is kept separated.
    Time to share data set all over the USA and see what is fake, created, new and has no past.

    Start to use computer networks to find criminals and illegal immigrants. Rather than let them stay hidden under decades of data privacy laws.

    Machine learning to keep a city looking great? Allow the waste and trash location to be reported and the why of the trash and waste to be understood.

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  26. Re:Facial recognition, fairness in machine learnin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Too bad facial recognition systems can't recognize blacks. And even if they fix that problem, the woke set will continue crowing from the rooftops that AI is racist since it was made by evil white devils and blah blah blah. The "AI" will be used to squelch dissenting whites and cement the glorious brown future.

  27. Your inner WindBourne is showing again... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Great idea, lets out all those people in witness protection and all our spies at the same time. What could possibly go wrong?

    1. Re:Your inner WindBourne is showing again... by AHuxley · · Score: 1

      AC re "What could possibly go wrong?"
      Lots of criminals get found.
      Illegal immigrants find their state issued sanctuary city ID won't work in a city/state/federally.
      Why should witness protection allow for all the crimes and illegal immigrants?
      The new ID given by witness protection will be full working US citizens ID with all needed database history.
      Re "our spies"? US spies should be working outside the USA and be provided with a working ID and story as to their past/history/education/work/faith/social media use.
      FBI and city/state undercover and informants should be able to work in todays complex world of social media and CCTV.

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  28. Re: Facial recognition, fairness in machine learni by astrofurter · · Score: 1

    The cops in most big American cities can't be bothered to stop people committing crime right outside the police station. The ONLY thing panoptic surveillance will be used for is repressing political dissent.

    Cybernetic totalitarianism is already here. The Machine is always watching.

  29. Re: Facial recognition, fairness in machine learni by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    The good part is the FBI counts the stats.
    The new AI, machine learning should track that inner city crime rate.
    The way to make it working :)

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  30. Re: Facial recognition, fairness in machine learn by astrofurter · · Score: 1

    The major problem is that the police can't be bothered to fight actual crime. This will not be improved by fitting them out with the equipment of totalitarianism.

  31. Re: Facial recognition, fairness in machine learn by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    The real time crime stats collected by machine will be useful all over the USA for researchers.
    Inner city crime rates.
    What gentrification results in.
    What new rental assistance does in once low crime middle and upper class areas.

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  32. Re: Facial recognition, fairness in machine learn by astrofurter · · Score: 1

    Who knows, it might help a little with crime. After all they say East Germany was pretty safe...

    Wait a minute, who are we kidding? These are American cops. We're going to get totalitarian repression AND it will still be unsafe to walk downtown at night.

  33. Re: Facial recognition, fairness in machine learn by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    Communist nations did see some crime and the way the Communist Romania's secret police had to respond was interesting.
    Ioanid Gang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    A 1960 propaganda film had to be made to show how they got tracked down.

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