The Algorithmic Colonization of Africa
Abeba Birhane,
Jul 23, 2019
Good argument that needs to be heard. " Although it is hardly ever made explicit, much of the ethical principles underlying AI rest firmly within utilitarian thinking. Even when knowledge of unfairness and discrimination of certain groups and individual as a result of algorithmic decision-making are brought to the fore, solutions that benefit the majority are sought. For instance, women have been systematically excluded from entering the tech industry, minorities forced into inhumane treatment, and systematic biases have been embedded in predictive policing systems ... African youth solving their own problems means deciding what we want to amplify and show the rest of the world. It also means not importing the latest state-of-the-art machine learning systems or any other AI tools without questioning what the underlying purpose is, who benefits, and who might be disadvantaged by the application of such tools." Or as someone says in the comments, "እድሜ ና ጤና አብá‹á‰¶ á‹áˆµáŒ¥áˆ½á¢".
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