Homework assignment 13
- gcafaro6
- Nov 23, 2019
- 1 min read
Who is harmed by this algorithm, and how shall we define that harm?
-On April 5, 2011, 41-year-old John Gass received a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. The letter informed Gass that his driver’s license had been revoked and that he should stop driving, effective immediately. He had nothing but a traffic ticket and didn't know why this was happening. After making calls to the company they found out that his image had been automatically flagged by a facial-recognition algorithm designed to scan through a database of millions of state driver’s licenses looking for potential criminal false identities. The algorithm fails accused him.
What way, if any does the company or entity responsible resolve themselves of blame?
-THe company went to professor of law at the University of Maryland. and they said “At the same time, we are overconfident about what it is that computers can do.”
How do choices in weighing inputs (age, sex, race, economic power, followers, etc) alter the ability of an algorithm to model real world opportunities?
-By giving the algotrthum a better understand of the users and by giving it a chance to identify things out of the computers reach, But in this case giving the system little understand the program falser accused just becuase of height weight color. But its not the the programs fault its the corrector, because the system did identify same color hair, skin, etc. But its not like it has a DNA testing.
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