The Robot Becky Menace
20th July 2018
Steve Sailer sounds the alarm.
As white people ever more often get hammered in the national media — with potential lifelong effects on their employability — for a single Type I (false alarm) error involving calling the cops on black people who turn out to be law-abiding, it’s only natural to look to Artificial Intelligence to get you out from under the vast amount of hatred hunting for Evil White People. “Hey, it wasn’t me who called the cops, it was the AI system!”
It turns out that Artificial Intelligence programs are designed to (shock) learn from experience.
And sometimes that ‘learning from experience’ causes them to profile black people as potential criminals.
This is the Blue Whale in the bathtub. For say, teenage males, the difference in criminal propensity between African-Americans and Asian-Americans is between one and two orders of magnitude. If you reduce AI’s dependence on “ethnicity, gender, income,” you are pretty much dead in the water when it comes to public safety, especially if “age” gets added to the list as another “sensitive attribute.” Everything else, such as measuring the body language of the individuals or their vocabularies, will have massive Disparate Impact problems.
Well, we can’t have that. Forget Science, we want Diversity! Even if we all get mugged and murdered because of it.
The problem is that when it comes to crime, reality is biased.
Reality is what sticks around even after you pretend it isn’t there.
UPDATE: Another Becky gets fired Apparently natural intelligence is just as corrupt and wacist.