• Sorry, but I’ve lost my faith in tech evangelism | Opinion | The Guardian

  “That tacit acceptance is actually buying into the tech-deterministic narrative, though. The question we should be asking – as the legal scholar Frank Pasquale says – is whether some of these technologies should be outlawed, or at least licensed for socially productive uses, like, say, radioactive isotopes are for medical purposes.”

  Tags: ITGS, tech, evangelism, ethics, control, surveillance, facial recognition, wicked problem

  • – By dr tech

• Climate change models have been accurate since the 1970s

  “Half a century ago, before the first Apple computer was even sold, climate scientists started making computer-generated forecasts of how Earth would warm as carbon emissions saturated the atmosphere (the atmosphere is now brimming with carbon).

  It turns out these decades-old climate models — which used math equations to predict how much greenhouse gases would heat the planet — were pretty darn accurate. Climate scientists gauged how well early models predicted Earth’s relentless warming trend and published their research Wednesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.”

  Tags: ITGS, models, climate change, relibaility, ethics

  • – By dr tech

• AI expert calls for end to UK use of ‘racially biased’ algorithms | Technology | The Guardian

  “On inbuilt bias in algorithms, Sharkey said: “There are so many biases happening now, from job interviews to welfare to determining who should get bail and who should go to jail. It is quite clear that we really have to stop using decision algorithms, and I am someone who has always been very light on regulation and always believed that it stifles innovation.”

  Tags: ITGS, algorithm, ai, bias, racial, technology, false positive, white, people and machines

  • – By dr tech

• Researchers criticize AI software that predicts emotions – CNA

  “The report cited a recent academic analysis of studies on how people interpret moods from facial expressions. That paper found that the previous scholarship showed such perceptions are unreliable for multiple reasons.”

  Tags: ITGS, algorithm, facial recognition, mood, emotion, prediction, reliability

  • – By dr tech

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