> In my opinion black-box algorithms have no place in government, and for this reason it's critical for the government to develop the expertise to develop and understand models themselves, so they aren't reliant on the trade secrets of contractors.
We learned from 2000 years of human history - war, disease etc. - to create a transparent system of checks and balances. These days we are trying to pretty much remove all of it (digitally) for "convenience" and "efficiency".
I can not understand how any semi-decent societal system can accept a situation of opaqueness and no accountability.
We learned from 2000 years of human history - war, disease etc. - to create a transparent system of checks and balances. These days we are trying to pretty much remove all of it (digitally) for "convenience" and "efficiency".
I can not understand how any semi-decent societal system can accept a situation of opaqueness and no accountability.