Yes, I used a nerdy example because I figured it would appeal more closely to the computer dork crowd of Hacker News, hoping that, by metaphor and extrapolation, you could imagine all sorts of ways that AI biased against sex or race would be immensely damaging to the fabric of society, and bias gets built into our society. This is already happening, as biased AI is used to estimate how much jail time someone will get [0]. Or pushing rents higher [1]. Or treating people for healthcare [2].
These AI ethicists are complaining about all of this, but of course they yell more loudly about sexism and racism, because, you know, those are fairly serious things that should be addressed first???
I don't think they need to be original, I think they need to bang their drum loudly. "Oh, that women's suffrage movement won't shut up about how they don't have a voice in policy that governs their life, can't they talk about something else for once" isn't an indictment of the people complaining, it's an indictment of the people not listening.
These AI ethicists are complaining about all of this, but of course they yell more loudly about sexism and racism, because, you know, those are fairly serious things that should be addressed first???
I don't think they need to be original, I think they need to bang their drum loudly. "Oh, that women's suffrage movement won't shut up about how they don't have a voice in policy that governs their life, can't they talk about something else for once" isn't an indictment of the people complaining, it's an indictment of the people not listening.
[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...
[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
[2] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax2342