Always a good time these days to repost this slide from an IBM internal presentation in 1979.

[omar@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@existentialcomics

so a politician is a computer?

I don't see much accountability for that function.

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[fubaroque@mastodon.social]

@existentialcomics It’s not a slide, it was in their programming manuals. Paper, there was no internet.

[purrperl@noc.social]

@existentialcomics

A BILLIONAIRE
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.

THEREFORE A BILLIONAIRE
MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION.

#EatTheRich #NoBillionaires

[numodular@c.im]

@BilldeWorde7a Dumbing-down the masses is proven Divide and Conquer strategy. Yes, the US is a Capitalist country, where there is no such thing as too-much-is-too-much.

[engel@chaos.social]

@existentialcomics as if humans could be accountable. Managers are both to big to fail and replaceable.

[elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social]

@existentialcomics Worth pointing out that GDPR elaborates on that. People have the right to have automated decision making redone by humans in some cases.

[cliffsesport@mastodon.social]

@Engel @existentialcomics I recall in Criminology class in college when we talked about Corps and things like Pintos going boom. I was only one for capital punishment for Co, everyone looked at me like I was crazy. I said Corps are legally a person, just kill the Co, if it removed value of stocks and golden parachutes that might change C level behavior. IDK how many people know Pinto stuff anymore https://www.tortmuseum.org/ford-pinto/

[ansible42@social.ridetrans.it]

@existentialcomics I feel like the same logic should apply to policy, because what is policy but an algorithm.

Not a fully formed idea, still noodling on it.

[dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social]

@existentialcomics And still so true!

[vervain@sunny.garden]

@existentialcomics

This is deeply important. *And* it pains me that IBM was allowed to continue as a business after their collaboration in literal death camps.

[maikel@vmst.io]

@purrperl that is the actual useful moral of this story. @existentialcomics

[purrperl@noc.social]

@maikel @existentialcomics

Naah. That's not it. Billionaires don't actually make management decisions. They only pretend to, while partying on private islands, with children. Let that sink in.

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@existentialcomics I am the language model of a modern major general

[benaveling@mastodon.world]

The AI didn't 'decide'. The AI printed some random text that has the format of a decision. It was humans that decided to treat that random text as a substitute for intelligence.
@existentialcomics

[tuban_muzuru@beige.party]

@BenAveling @existentialcomics

The TL;DR for any LLM is someone practicing their tennis game by bouncing the ball off the wall. That's kinda it:

Appropriate . But neither Right nor Wrong. If the AI Chatbot was asked to decide - who asked the question?