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Islamic jurisprudence
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Whoever deploys an automated decision system should answer for its harms, fault or no fault
Take the standard case. A bank uses an automated system to assess loans. A creditworthy applicant is refused. The refusal rests on correlations in the training data that no engineer chose and nobody can fully reconstruct. Who answers for it? The engineers…
Started by Hamza Qureshi7 replies229 views -
Slippery-slope arguments in medicine are usually predictions, not fallacies
I was a GP in Leith for thirty-four years. Medicine runs on slippery-slope reasoning, and most of it is sound. A simple case. A patient with a cold asks for antibiotics. If I prescribe "just this once", I have taught them that…
Started by Alistair Gow6 replies196 views