{"id":175688,"date":"2020-12-23T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/23\/quote-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2020-12-23T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T04:08:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/12\/23\/quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">After an audit of the algorithm, the resume screening company found that the algorithm found two factors to be most indicative of job performance: their name was Jared, and whether they played high school lacrosse.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1427621\/companies-are-on-the-hook-if-their-hiring-algorithms-are-biased\/\">Dave Gershgorn<\/a> on <i>Quartz<\/i> about how algorithms reinforce bias.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I would argue that this is a feature, and not a bug.<\/p>\n<p>When you look at the &#8220;Gig Economy&#8221;, and AI &#8220;Expert Systems,&#8221; the unspoking selling point is that they are, &#8220;money laundering for bias.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an audit of the algorithm, the resume screening company found that the algorithm found two factors to be most indicative of job performance: their name was Jared, and whether they played high school lacrosse. \u2014Dave Gershgorn on Quartz about how algorithms reinforce bias. I would argue that this is a feature, and not a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[618,506,450,588],"class_list":["post-175688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-bigotry","tag-employment","tag-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}