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Decision making. The first group involves using computers to automate consequential decisions. These are called automatic decision systems and they are often used, for example, in the process of setting bail, approving loans, screening résumés, or allocating social benefits. These uses are contentious, and rightfully so, because they have extreme ramifications for people who are subject to the system’s recommendations.
The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
First, we have a clause that we will describe as “ecstatic.” This is the promise of “high tech,” i.e., that the human may escape its bodily confines into a machinic realm — be it a cyberspace of communication, or a replacement of the organic with the technical through implantation and bionic augmentation. Cyborg or Cyberia. In either case, there was a promise of an escape from the body as well as an extension thereof, an indifference to limits, and hence an escape from the limits of a biological system itself already regulated under various regimes.
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