Machine intelligence can be a powerful part of the power playbook, she said. The machine was trained on Chinese government ID photos, analyzing the faces of criminals and non-criminals to identify predictive features. “We should always be suspicious when machine learning systems are described as free from bias if it’s been trained on human-generated data,” Crawford said. Palantir is building an intelligence system to assist Donald Trump in deporting immigrants. Crawford argues that we have to make these AI systems more transparent and accountable.

Source: The Guardian March 13, 2017 11:26 UTC